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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky,Got a minute?
A team of Finnish and American geneticists has found that that, for some people at least, music is in their genes1. In what the researchers called the first study of its kind, they found specific regions of chromosomes2 that were connected to musical ability. The report appeared in the Journal of Medical Genetics. The subjects were 234 members of several generations of 15 families in Finland. The team used a number of tests to gauge3 musical skill: one measured pitch, another tested the ability to keep a beat. The chromosomal4 regions that were found to be connected to music are known to be involved in the migration5 of neurons during development. And the study also found that the musical DNA6 overlapped7 with a region associated with dyslexia. That finding suggests that language and music have a common evolutionary8 background. Of course you’re going to need more than the right genes to make you a good musician. Because while the N and R trains will take you there, the best way to get to Carnegie Hall remains9 practice.
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1 genes | |
n.基因( gene的名词复数 ) | |
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n.染色体( chromosome的名词复数 ) | |
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3 gauge | |
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器 | |
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4 chromosomal | |
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n.迁移,移居,(鸟类等的)迁徙 | |
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6 DNA | |
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸 | |
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7 overlapped | |
_adj.重叠的v.部分重叠( overlap的过去式和过去分词 );(物体)部份重叠;交叠;(时间上)部份重叠 | |
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8 evolutionary | |
adj.进化的;演化的,演变的;[生]进化论的 | |
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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