He reasoned that some single-celled creatures are known to enter a hibernation-like state and survive for years with no air or food.

他推断，已知的一些单细胞生物进入类似冬眠的状态，在没有空气和食物的情况下存活数年。

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The fossils buried in Pleistocene and earlier ocean sediments were of foraminifera—small, single-celled marine organisms that secrete shells of calcium carbonate, or calcite.

在更新世和更早的海洋沉积物中埋藏的化石生物属于孔虫类生物，它们是微小的单细胞海洋生物，其分泌的硬壳由碳酸钙和方解石组成。

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The ancestors of plants were photosynthetic single-celled organisms that gave rise to plants presumably lacked true roots, stems, leaves, and complex reproductive structures such as flowers.

植物的祖先是进行光合作用的单细胞生物，由此产生的植物可能缺乏真正的根、茎、叶和复杂的生殖结构，如花朵。

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His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

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We talked about last time that part of the process of going from this single cell to multi cellular many celled organisms like we are is cell division.

我们上节课说过,从一个单细胞分裂形成大量细胞,构成的器官的过程,叫做细胞分裂

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Scientists have discovered that a single-celled organism can negotiate the shortest way through a maze.

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Solazyme, another firm based in South San Francisco, wants to use single-celled algae to make its fuel.

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Here is just one example: Single-celled marine plants produce fully half of all the oxygen in our atmosphere.

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