They can even map a pathogen's genetic code, which changes from generation to generation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The genetic code is said to be degenerate because I can read in one direction.

遗传密码的这种性质称为简并性,我可以从一个方向去解读

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Just like people have a genetic code, perhaps, that gives us various instructions that we begin to follow out, or certain innate psychology or what have you.

就像人类拥有基因编码,给我们传达各种各样,得以遵循的指示,或者是某种与生俱来的心理,等等等等

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In this study, the research team developed a new statistical way of analyzing the genetic code of people who had reached age 100 as compared with people who had a more typical lifespan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

That creates a problem in the genetic code in that there's 64 possible sequences but there's only 20 some amino acids, so each amino acid can be specified by more than one codon.

这里有个问题,遗传密码有六十四种可能的序列,而只有二十种氨基酸,因此每种氨基酸都有,不止一种密码子与之对应

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As shown in this cartoon here, again you don't need to know the details of this, but if you're interested in knowing what's the biological bases of the genetic code this is it.

像这个动画里画的那样,这里你也不需要了解细节,不过如果你很有兴趣想知道,遗传密码的生物学基础

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It's more complicated in making protein from an RNA strand and that complication is called the genetic code.

而从一条单链RNA翻译为蛋白,这个过程更为复杂,称之为遗传密码

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