科学家修改了这种羊的基因,使其包含了一些蜘蛛的基因,所以这种羊产的奶非常奇异,经过提纯、风干,可以纺成与蛛丝非常类似的丝。
A goat whose DNA has been altered to include some spider DNA provides a very curious milk that can be purified, dried, and spun into very spider-like silk.
怀俄明大学的兰迪·刘易斯创造出的这些转基因山羊产的奶,1夸脱能制成大约0.5盎司丝,这相当于100只蜘蛛产的丝。
These transgenic goats, created by Randy Lewis at the University of Wyoming , produce about a half ounce of silk from every quart of milk--the equivalent of a hundred spiders.
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