英语释义

• (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity;

  "genes were formerly called factors"

片语

gene mapping[遗] 基因图谱

gene pool[遗] 基因库

gene engineering[遗] 基因工程；遗传工程

gene flow[遗] 基因流，[遗] 基因流动；基因怜

gene mutation[遗] 基因突变

Gene Tierney吉恩·蒂尔尼

recessive gene[遗] 隐性基因

gene bank[遗] 基因库，[遗] 基因文库

Gene Wolfe吉恩·沃尔夫

gene duplication基因复制

foreign gene外源基因；异体基因

gene library[遗] 基因库；[遗] 基因文库

gene transfer基因导入，转基因；[遗] 基因转移

gene knockdown基因敲落

major gene[遗] 主要基因；知基因；柱因

gene therapy[遗][临床] 基因治疗

gene trapping基因捕获

gene clone基因克隆

suicide gene自杀基因

Gene Simmons吉恩·西蒙斯

gene cloning基因克隆；基因选殖

gene recombination基因重组；基因重组现象

gene expression[遗] 基因表达；[遗] 基因表现

gene deletion基因缺失；基因删除（多余基因的除去）

dominant gene[遗] 显性基因

reporter gene报告基因

英汉例句

• for example, if genetic engineering simply moves a gene for a common food ingredient from one safe food crop to another, this does not expose consumers to new components in their food supply.

  例如，如果基因工程单单从一种安全粮食作物的一种普通食物成分的基因转移到另一种作物，这并不使消费者受到事物供给中新成分的影响。

• but what if we intervene on behalf of gene expression by controlling the formation and liberation of free radicals in the body?

  但是如果我们通过控制自由基的信息和释放来干预基因的表达，结果会怎样？

• it has at least one gene necessary for photosynthesis—so far it’s the only animal known with this ability.

  它有至少一个基因是光合作用所必需的——到目前为止这是唯一被发现具有此项能力的动物。

• 「we have beaten them in every aspect of the game, 」 he said of rival gene hunters at american and british universities.

  「我们已经在各个方面击败了他们，」他说到的对手是美国和英国的大学里的基因捕手。

• but researchers suspect a mutation in one gene allows some people to skip the process of forming fingerprints during development.

  但是研究者猜想有一个基因突变使得有些人在生长过程中跳过指纹的形成过程。

• only some people with the gene will develop the condition and not all people with dementia are carriers.

  只是部分携带这种基因的人会患病，但并非所有癡呆病人都是携带者。

• in the study, those with the gene gave less money to charity than others.

  在这项研究中，那些拥有吝啬基因的人比其他人捐赠给慈善机构的钱更少。

• there will be other advances in gene therapy in 2009.

  在2009年，基因治疗将有其他的进展出现。

• sometimes it is because in the new population, the genetic background for their other genes masks the effect of gene a on depression.

  有时，那是因为在新的人群中，人们其他的基因作用下的遗传背景掩盖了基因a对抑郁的效应。

• but it needs some help, the gene itself isn’t enough.

  但是它还需要一些帮助，那种基因本身是不够的。

• the scientists were able to replicate the gene variation in a strain of mice and found that the mice needed less sleep than usual, too.

  科学家能够在一种老鼠的身上复制这一基因变异，结果发现，这种老鼠需要的睡眠时间也比平常少了。

• this gene has an important influence, but you cannot say it causes happiness.

  这个基因有重要的影响，但你不能说它本身就导致幸福感。

• when injected behind the retina at the back of the eye, the gene produces a protein that is sensitive to red light.

  当这种基因被注射到位于眼睛后部的视网膜后面时，会生成一种能感应红色光的蛋白质。

• this gene controls the glucose consumption of cells and so provides the fuel by which they grow and multiply.

  这个基因控制着细胞对葡萄糖的消耗，这样它们可以获得提供给他们生长和繁殖的燃料。

• we have to do in-vitro cell culture experiments first, prove it in an animal model, and then develop a molecule or protein which will affect the mutated gene product.

  我们首先得做一个体外细胞培养实验，在动物模型中证明它的存在，然后开发出一种能影响突变基因产物的分子或蛋白质。

• unlike other gene tests that try to predict the odds of someday developing heart disease, this one aims to tell whether you have it now.

  与其它的基因检测不同，不是试图预测某一天发生心脏病的几率，而是旨在说明你现在是否有这种可能性。

• in this case, the variation happens inside a gene for one of the receptor molecules that nicotine attaches itself to when it produces its buzz.

  在这一情况下，编码一种受体分子基因的内部发生了变异——当这一受体发出信号时，尼古丁就与之结合。

• the breakthrough permits direct detection of each nucleotide, allowing an entire gene to be sequenced in about an hour.

  这个重大的突破允许直接检测每个核苷酸，可以在大约一小时之内测序整个基因。

• so a lot hangs on whether the association between gene and disease is real.

  所以，这一切取决于基因与疾病之间是否真的有关联。