課堂翻譯 4-5

We are rapidly improving our understanding of genes, what they do, and how to modify them. A genome is an organism is entire set of genes. At the beginning of this century, scientists completed the mapping of the human genome.

Our rapidly increasing understanding of the human genome and those of other organisms means that we are becoming capable of genetically modifying ourselves by cutting out, rearranging, and implanting DNA sequences from other organisms. This secondary evolution will allow us to change the course and speed of primary evolution (based mostly on the glacially slow process of natural selection) of our own species and other species by creating types of genes not currently found in the rest of nature.

我們正快速地改良我們對基因的理解，我們所做的、和該如何去需正它們。而一個生物整體是由基因組所構成。在這個世紀開始，科學家完成了人類基因組的匹對。

我們正迅速的理解人類基因組和其他生物對的基因組，我們有能力改變在遺傳基因上，藉由切出、在安排來修正我們自己，而且了解來自其它的生物DNA序對。這樣的進化將讓我們改變我們自己的品種，而且所創造的品種基因的類型也不會在自然界裡面發現到呢。