High blood pressure is a genetic trait that tends to run in families.

高血压往往在家族中具有遗传特性。

Alleles are the parts of a chromosome that encode specific genetic traits.

等位基因是染色体上编码特定遗传特征的部分。

A population of snails in Ireland shares genetic traits and physical characteristics with another population in the Pyrenees.

爱尔兰一个蜗牛种群的遗传特征和物理特征，跟比利牛斯山另一个种群的相同。

But what if the researchers were interested in investigating some association between ancestry and the risk for certain genetic traits?

但是假如研究者感兴趣的是调查血统和某些基因特质之间的关系呢？

Height is a model trait for all the rest of the complex genetic traits, because it's very easy to measure.

身高是所有其他复杂的遗传特征的模型特征，因为它很容易测量。

It's the science of plants' structure and their function, the way their parts work and how their genetic traits pass on.

这是一门研究植物结构和功能的科学，研究植物各部分的工作方式，以及它们的基因特征是如何传递的。

When players breed kitties, the newborns carry on genetic traits of the parents.

当玩家繁殖小猫时，新生儿会携带父母的遗传特征。

Growing up, I never shared genetic traits with anyone I knew.

从小到大 我没接触过跟我有相似基因的人。

And when that youngster grows up, it will pass on those very same genetic traits that saved it in the first weeks of life.

当幼崽长大之后，它会把在生命初期拯救了它的遗传性状流传给后代。

In the 20th century genetic traits were used to promote the idea of racial superiority, sometimes in disturbing propaganda.

在 20 世纪， 遗传特征被用来宣传种族优越感，有时用于令人不安的宣传。

Another example is how communities selected for genetic traits in a variety of tropical trees, such as the cocoa tree-used, of course, to make chocolate.

另一个例子是，人类如何为可可树等各种热带树木选择遗传特性，当然，这是用来制作巧克力。

It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass, enzyme level, genetic traits they just don't have time to look for.

这是一个相对粗糙但很方便的替代方式，它可以代表其它更重要的因素， 比如肌肉质量、酶水平、基因特质，而这些都是他们没时间去检测的。

At that time, many people believed in eugenics, the idea that desirable and undesirable genetic traits could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding.

当时，很多人都相信优生学（eugenics），形容理想和不理想的遗传性状可以且应该通过选择性育种来控制。

We also use it in biology to talk about genetic traits or characteristics that are passed from parents to their children.

我们还在生物学中使用它来谈论从父母传给孩子的遗传特征或特征。

This genetic trait has been passed on through evolution, so that today many people have a natural tendency to gain weight.

这种遗传特征通过进化传递下来，因此今天许多人都有发胖的自然倾向。

Another absolutely ridiculous belief running rampant the 1920s was something called eugenics, the idea that we should control the genetic traits passed down in society.

另一个在 20 年代盛行的绝对荒谬的信念是所谓的优生学，即我们应该控制社会上传承的遗传特征的想法。

And of course, a very obvious one is in the human-germ-line-embryo editing but also, frankly, also in microbes and other organisms that could be released into the environment-using gene editing to spread genetic traits in a mode called gene drives.

当然，一个非常明显的例子体现在人类-生殖系-胚胎编辑中，但坦白地说，也存在于可能被释放到环境中的微生物和其他有机体中 ——使用基因编辑，以一种叫做基因驱动的模式传播遗传特征。

So I have here the expression " runs in the family." When something runs in the family, it means there is a trait, like a genetic trait or a personality characteristic that many people in the family have.

所以我在这里有“在家庭中运行”的表达。当家族中有某种遗传特征时，就意味着有一种特征，比如家族中许多人都具有的遗传特征或性格特征。

And of course, a very obvious one is in the human-germ-line-embryo editing but also, frankly, also in microbes and other organisms that could be released into the environment—using gene editing to spread genetic traits in a mode called gene drives.

当然，一个非常明显的例子是人类种系胚胎编辑，坦率地说，还有可能释放到环境中的微生物和其他生物——使用基因编辑以一种称为基因的模式传播遗传特性驱动器。