四级Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

他们的孩子保留了自己产生叶绿素的能力，尽管他们在吃了足够多的海藻以窃取必要的基因之前无法从阳光中产生能量，而这些基因是他们自己还无法产生的。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and eye color.

人们很容易接受基因控制身体特征，如性别、种族和眼睛颜色。

2010年12月阅读原文

考研Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

批评家们对基因专利提出了三个主要论点：基因是自然的产物，所以它可能没有专利；基因专利抑制创新而不是奖励创新；专利的垄断限制了像Myriad这样的基因检测。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can achieve based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes?

谁愿意被告知，基于你无法控制的东西，比如你的基因，你所能取得的成就是有限的？

2010年12月阅读原文

六级Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops.

现在，他们正试图弄清楚什么样的分子信号传导过程激活了复活植物中的种子构建基因，以及如何在作物中繁殖这些基因。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考His study shows that when robins are exposed to light at night in the lab, it leads to some genes being active at the wrong time of day.

他的研究表明，当知更鸟晚上在实验室暴露在光线下时，会导致一些基因在一天中的错误时间激活。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Among human populations, culture not only affects the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are.

在人类群体中，文化不仅影响我们的生活方式，还将自身写入我们的基因，影响我们是谁。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研The study also found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity.

这项研究还发现，嗅觉基因是朋友的共同基因，而不是免疫基因。

2015年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

四级"There's no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell," says sidney pierce from the University of South Florida.

来自南佛罗里达州大学的sidney pierce说：“地球上的藻类不可能在动物细胞内起作用。”

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.

当我儿子吉恩大约12岁时，我开始帮助他学习工作，我买了20只鸡，让他照顾它们。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

六级So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

那么，如果种族概念被抛弃，还有什么其他变量可以使用呢？尤德尔说，科学家需要更具体地使用他们的语言，也许可以使用诸如祖先或人口之类的术语，以便在个人和人口层面上更准确地反映人类与其基因之间的关系。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry"or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

尤德尔说，科学家需要更具体地使用他们的语言，也许可以使用“祖先”或“群体”这样的术语，在个人和群体层面上更准确地反映人类与其基因之间的关系。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级The slugs can manufacture chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, and hold these genes within their body.

蛞蝓可以制造叶绿素，一种植物中的绿色色素，从阳光中获取能量，并将这些基因保存在体内。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

一家联邦上诉法院推翻了先前的判决，裁定Myriad Genetics可能确实拥有两种基因的专利，这两种基因有助于预测女性患乳腺癌的风险。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Then one night, gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed.

一天晚上，吉恩告诉我他没有足够的钱买饲料。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

四级But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how smart they are, or what career they are likely to choose?

但是基因也能决定人们是否会离婚，他们有多聪明，或者他们可能选择什么职业吗？

2010年12月阅读原文

高考It depending on NASA Hunch high school class, like the one science teachers Gene Gordon and Donna Himmelberg lead at Fairport high school in Fairport, New York.

这取决于NASA Hunch高中的课程，比如纽约费尔波特费尔波特高中的科学教师Gene Gordon和Donna Himmelberg。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Today skin color is evolving the new mixtures of people coming together and having children with new mixtures of skin color genes.

今天，肤色正在演变为新的混合体，人们聚集在一起，生下具有新的混合肤色基因的孩子。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级"I'm trying three methods of breeding," Farrant says: conventional, genetic modification and gene editing.

法兰特说：“我正在尝试三种育种方法：传统育种、基因改造和基因编辑。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.

当你看到福特将新产品从墨西哥转移到底特律，而不是相反的情况时，你就知道事情正在发生变化，”国家经济委员会主任吉恩·斯珀林说。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级The term kleptoplasty is used to describe the practice of using hiJacked genes to create nutrients from sunlight.

盗贼整形术一词用来描述利用被劫持的基因从阳光中创造营养的做法。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug's efficacy.

公司现在正在研究基因如何相互作用，寻找可能用于确定疾病原因或预测药物疗效的相关性。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now.

为什么嗅觉基因中存在这种相似性目前还很难解释。

2015年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级Each team is crossbreeding a local European short-grain rice with a long-grain Asian variety that carries the salt-resistant gene.

每个小组正在将一种本地的欧洲短粒水稻与一种携带抗盐基因的亚洲长粒水稻杂交。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

四级All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genes and the environment in which you were raised.

所有这些都受到你的基因和你成长环境的影响。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级The study of how genes and environment interact to influence psychological activity is known as behavioral genetics

关于基因和环境如何相互作用影响心理活动的研究被称为行为遗传学

2010年12月阅读原文

考研For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.

例如，不清楚整个基因组的测序是否违反了其中单个基因的专利。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants' response to dryness.

Farrant和其他人在过去二十年中发现

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

六级"We're looking at gene promoters and what would be their master switch. "

“我们正在研究基因启动子，以及它们的主开关是什么。”

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

四级Gene Cohen, acting director of the same institute, suggests that people in their old age should engage in mental and physical activities individually as well as in groups.

同一研究所的代理所长吉恩·科恩建议，老年人应该单独和集体进行心理和身体活动。

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringing.

与身体能量有限并随着年龄的增长而减少不同，情感能量是无限的，与基因或教养无关。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genes and the environment in which you were 47 .

所有这些都受到你的基因和你47岁时所处环境的相互作用的影响。

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级The study of how genes and environment interact to influence 48 activity is known as behavioral genetics.

关于基因和环境如何相互作用影响48种活动的研究被称为行为遗传学。

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can 51 based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes?

谁愿意被告知，基于你无法控制的东西，比如你的基因，你所能做的事情有局限性？

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how 52 they are, or what career they are likely to choose?

但是，基因是否也能决定人们是否会离婚，他们的年龄是52岁，或者他们可能选择什么职业？

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级Increasingly, science 54 that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits.

越来越多的科学表明，基因为人类的许多特征奠定了基础。

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级It’s pretty incredible how it has managed to hijack the genes of the algae (藻类）on which it feeds.

它是如何劫持藻类的基因的，这真是令人难以置信(藻类）它以此为食。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级The slugs can manufacture chlorophyll, the green pigment (色素）in plants that captures energy from sunlight, and hold these genes within their body.

蛞蝓可以制造叶绿素，一种绿色颜料(色素）在从阳光中获取能量并将这些基因保存在体内的植物中。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can’t generate energy from sunlight until they’ve eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can’t yet produce on their own.

他们的婴儿保留了产生自己叶绿素的能力，尽管在吃了足够的藻类来窃取必要的基因之前，他们无法从阳光中产生能量，而这些基因还不能自己产生。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级“There’s no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell,” says Sidney Pierce from the University of South Florida.

南佛罗里达大学的Sidney Pierce说：“藻类的基因不可能在动物细胞内发挥作用。”。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级They get all their nutritional needs met by the genes that they’ve hijacked from the algae.

它们从藻类中劫持的基因满足了它们所有的营养需求。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s, when they discovered that oncogenes, which are cancer-causing genes (基因), are inactive in normal cells.

研究人员在20世纪70年代初取得了巨大进展，当时他们发现了致癌基因，即致癌基因(基因), 在正常细胞中是不活跃的。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers are initiated at the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers.

所涉及的确切机制仍然很神秘，但许多癌症可能是在基因水平上引发的，这表明我们永远无法预防所有癌症。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Second, we have to determine whether there are a limited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for at least part of the trouble.

其次，我们必须确定细胞中是否有数量有限的基因总是造成至少部分问题。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone.

由于大部分变异是由基因引起的，又有一个进化因子消失了。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题