having a single cell (and thus not divided into cells)

While they spend part of their life as ordinary single-celled creatures, they sometimes grow into truly alien forms.

虽然在生命的一段时间里只是普普通通的单细胞生物，有些时候却可以长成真正的外星形式。

He does not plan to stick to bacteria, though. The other challenge, besides the minimal genome, is to repeat the trick with single-celled algae.

虽然如此，他也没打算坚持用细菌。除了最小基因组外的另一个挑战是，将戏法在单细胞藻类上重演。

Such cycling in effect makes single-celled organisms immortal.

此循环使得单细胞永生。

The single-celled diatoms below—the likes of which are found in oceans worldwide—were collected with a plankton net in San Francisco Bay.

上图就是旧金山海湾的一个浮游生物网内聚集的单细胞植物硅藻——这种藻类在世界各大海洋都广泛分布。

Scientists are also discovering that our nervous system shares an even deeper homology with single-celled organisms.

科学家们甚至还发现我们的神经系统和单细胞生物有着更为深层次的同源性。

The scientists trap the bacteria in a gel.This way, the single-celled cleaning crew can destroy the salt layer with no moisture penetrating the murals.

他们先把细菌封闭在凝胶内，这样，这些单细胞的细菌就会在没有水分的条件下清除盐结晶层，因为没有水分的参与，也就不会损坏壁画。

This way, the single-celled cleaning crew can destroy the salt layer with no moisture penetrating the murals.

这样，这些单层细胞清洁队员可以在不使水汽进入油画的前提下除去盐层。

FOR its supporters, the idea of growing single-celled algae on exhaust gas piped from power stations is the ultimate in recycling.

对于其支持者来说，在发电厂的废气排放管道上种植单细胞藻类是再循环的根本途径。

Now experiments have revealed that the single-celled organisms are, even for microbes, incredibly small.

目前，实验证明：被发现的单细胞有机体，甚至是微生物，都是极小的。

Scientists working for a private corporation have created the world「s first synthetic life form - a single-celled organism named Synthia.

一家私营公司的科学家创造出了世界上首个合成的生命形式——一个叫做「辛西娅」(Synthia，意为「人造儿」)的单细胞有机体。

Microscopic parasites include single-celled protozoans such as amoebas and sporozoa, fungi, and bacteria, which can infect animals and plants.

显微镜下可见的有单细胞原生类寄生虫，例如阿米巴和孢子虫，真菌及细菌，这些均能感染动物及植物。

The family is a huge algae, except for a few large seaweed, many are very small plant, have a plenty of single-celled plants.

海藻是一个庞大的家族，除了一些大型海藻外，很多都是非常微小的植物，有的是单细胞植物。

My boss is a single-celled organism.

我的老板是一位单细胞生物。

Some phytoplankton are bacteria, some are protists, and most are single-celled plants.

有些浮游植物是细菌，有些是原生生物，而大多数则是单细胞植物。

They pointed out that because bacteria constantly reproduce, a group of the single-celled organisms could store a piece of information for thousands of years.

他们指出，由于细菌不断繁殖，一条信息可以在单细胞有机体中储存数千年。

Any form of life we find there, we won」t have encountered before - there will probably be viruses, and we may have bacteria, archaea (other single-celled organisms) and... maybe fungi.

我们在那里发现的任何生命形式，以前都不曾见过——可能有病毒，我们还可能会发现细菌、古代细菌(其他单细胞生物)以及…真菌也有可能。

He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.

他提出工业化规模培植（他形容为生物制造，而不是农业种养）转基因单细胞藻类，以便生产出即用燃料的碳氢化合物。

The invention of the visible light microscope late in the 16th century introduced a previously unknown realm of single-celled plants and animals.

16世纪后期，可视光学显微镜的发明使人类第一次观察到了单细胞动植物的世界。

Scientists have known for some time that life exists at such depths, but they thought it mostly consisted of single-celled organisms.

科学家们早已知道在这一深度存在有生命，但他们认为存在的主要是单细胞生物。

The two organisms used in this study, the single-celled budding yeast and the roundworm C. elegans, are commonly used models for aging research.

在这项研究中用的两种生物，单细胞芽殖酵母和秀丽隐桿线虫，是研究老化过程的常用模式。

The discovery of life-forms so deep underground strengthens the notion that most of the organisms on the planet are in fact hardy, single-celled creatures that live in the rock beneath our feet.

在如此深的地下发现生命再次表明了我们星球上大多数生物是生活在我们脚下巖石中强悍的单细胞生物。

Diatomaceous earth (which we shall hereby call DE because it「s a lot easier to type) is the fossilized remains of single-celled algae called diatoms.

硅藻土(下文简称DE)是一种被称为硅藻的石化单细胞海藻。

That」s something we humans have trouble enough with, let alone a single-celled organism without a neuron to call its own.

这对我们人类是够麻烦的，让一个没有神经的单细胞生物拥有自己的意愿。

Nonetheless, there are indications that single-celled organisms can learn.

尽管如此，仍有迹象表明单细胞有机体可以学习。

The single-celled photosynthetic organisms produce much of the oxygen on earth and are the base of the marine food chain.

地球上多数的氧气都是这些单细胞光合作用的生命制造的，他们还是海洋食物链的基础。