Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.

基因决定每个生物的特征。

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Every living thing needs to reproduce.

每种生物都需要繁殖。

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Sometimes one living thing kills another to live, so they form a food chain.

有时一种生物为了生存而杀死另一种生物，所以它们形成了食物链。

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"I never really realized that that meant that every living thing really came as an evolutionary development of the first seeds of life."

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A plant is a living thing.

一株植物是一个有生命力的实体

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And another thing I've also noticed, especially living downtown,

另一件我注意到的是，特别是住在市区

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Iris-scanning cameras make sure you're the real, living thing by checking the pulse inside your eyeball.

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It's almost like a living thing - like some animal that's going to devour you.

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Later that afternoon, we learned that scientists all agreed: the dust was a living thing.

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