The deep sea typically has a sparse fauna dominated by tiny worms and crustaceans, with an even sparser distribution of larger animals.

深海通常有稀疏的动物群，以微小的蠕虫和甲壳类动物为主，更大的动物分布更少。

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Sometimes "larger" animals, such as tadpoles or worms, wind up half in and half out of the trap, gruesomely losing part of their body to the plant's hunger.

有时候，一些“大”点的动物，比如，蝌蚪或者蠕虫，身体的半部分陷进阀门的里面，而半部分露在外面，残忍地将一段身体留给了饥饿的植物。

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Ever since the human-genome project was completed, it has puzzled biologists that animals, be they worms, flies or people, all seem to have about the same number of genes for proteins-around 20, 000.

自从人类基因组计划完成后，令生物学家迷惑不解的是：动物(线虫、苍蝇和人类)好像都有相同数目的组成蛋白质的基因——大概20,000个。

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