gene
英 [dʒiːn]
美 [dʒin]
助記提示
音譯“基因”,指生物的遺傳物質。中文的“基”為“基本、根基、基礎”,“因”為“緣由”,連在一起就是“你的最基本的東西是怎麽來的”,音義大和諧,巧奪天工。
中文詞源
gene 基因來自詞根gen, 生育,詞源同generate. 用於科學術語。
英文詞源
- gene (n.)
- 1911, from German Gen, coined 1905 by Danish scientist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927), from Greek genea "generation, race," from PIE root *gene- (see genus). De Vries had earlier called them pangenes. Gene pool is attested from 1946.
雙語例句
- 1. He found evidence of mutated forms of the gene.
- 他找到了該基因出現了變異形式的證據。
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- 2. It is far too early to make sweeping statements about gene therapy.
- 現在對基因療法下結論還為時過早。
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- 3. The gene is only part of the causation of illness.
- 基因隻是致病的部分原因。
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- 4. Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
- 不過,他們現在發現的基因無法解釋所有的病例。
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- 5. Gene clerked at the auction.
- 吉恩在拍賣會上作文書工作。
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