Radical ideas sometimes need champions to survive the hurly-burly of science. Darwin had his bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley, to defend the theory of evolution. And Gregor Mendel had biologist William Bateson to fight his corner. Of all the advances made in biology in the past century, nothing has had more impact on our lives than genetics. Mendel's work was rediscovered in 1900, the structure of DNA was revealed about 50 years later, and as the century came to a close we had already read the complete genetic code of a flu virus and a worm. Soon we will have charted the entire genetic sequence of complex organisms, from plants to Homo sapiens.
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机译：激进的想法有时需要拥护者才能在科学的艰苦奋斗中生存。达尔文的斗牛犬托马斯·亨利·赫x黎（Thomas Henry Huxley）捍卫了进化论。格雷戈尔·孟德尔（Gregor Mendel）聘请生物学家威廉·贝特森（William Bateson）奋斗。在过去一个世纪生物学的所有进步中，没有什么比遗传学对我们的生活影响更大。孟德尔的工作是在1900年重新发现的，大约50年后才揭示了DNA的结构，随着世纪的临近，我们已经阅读了流感病毒和蠕虫的完整遗传密码。很快，我们将绘制从植物到智人的复杂生物的整个遗传序列图。
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