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| 标题 | 2013中考英语阅读类练习资料：Genome is a book | |||||
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? 2013中考是选拔性考试，也是极有竞争性的考试，为了给童靴们复习，巩固各科知识。在中考中取得最好的成果，我们积极帮助各位备战中考，提供大量的考试复习试题资料。祝大家取得大圆满的成功。 Imagine that the genome (基因组) is a book. The book consists of 23 chapters with thousands of stories made up of paragraphs, words and letters on different levels. There are one billion words in the book, as long as 800 Bibles; if I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day, it would take me centuries; if I wrote out the human genome, one letter per millimeter, my text would be as long as the River Danube. This is a huge volume, a book of great length, but it all fits inside an extremely small cell nuclear(细胞核) that fits easily upon the head of a pin. The idea of the genome as a book is not, strictly speaking, even a metaphor. It is true to a great extent. A book is a piece of digital information, written in one-directional form and defined by a code that translates a small alphabet of signs into a large dictionary of meanings through the order of their groupings. So is a genome. The only difference is that all English books read from left to right, while some parts of the genome read from left to right while some from right to left, but never both at the same time. While English books are written in words of different lengthens using twenty-six letters, genomes are written entirely in words of three-letter length, using only four letters, and instead of being written on flat pages, they are written on long chains of DNA molecules (分子). The genome is a very clever book, because in the right condition it can both photocopy itself and read itself. Help: millimeter n. 毫米 digital adj.数字的 alphabet n. 字母表
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