The story begins early in the morning, around 4am, with the rise of the first simple, single-cell organisms.

在清晨4点左右，故事伴随着第一个简单单细胞物出现开始。

Bacteria are single-celled, living organisms that can exist and perform life functions on their own.

细菌是单细胞物体，可以独立存在并执行命功能。

Long ago, Earth's oceans were filled with purple single-celled organisms called archaea.

很久以前，地球海洋里满是单细胞紫色物，叫做古菌。

Dinoflagellates are one of the biggest single-celled organisms known to man.

甲藻是人类已知最大单细胞物之一。

Candida is a type of fungi, a single celled member of the yeast family.

念珠菌是一种真菌，是酵母家族单细胞成员。

Viruses are really small, about 100 times smaller than a single cell of bacteria.

病毒真很小，大约比细菌单细胞小100倍。

Life on Earth started with single-celled bacteria about 4 billion years ago.

地球命始于大约40亿年前单细胞细菌。

A single-cell organism with its own branch on the tree of life.

在命之有自己分支单细胞有机体。

It's even thought that fungi and animals may share a similar single-celled ancestor.

甚至于认为真菌和动物有相似单细胞类祖先。

So a bigger single cell can't catch enough stuff to feed all its volume.

所以一个更大单细胞无法获取足够东西来养它所有体积。

Imagine you're one of those more complex single-celled organisms, and you are hangry.

想象一下，你是那些更复杂单细胞物之一，你饿了。

Meanwhile, the general blueprint of single-celled organisms has hardly changed in 3 billion years.

与此同时，单细胞物总体蓝图在 30 亿年中几乎没有变化。

But the team did see single-celled organisms called ciliates in the sick urchins.

但该调查小组确实在患病海胆中发现了名为纤毛虫单细胞物。

From the very first cells, to you watching this now.

从最最原初那个单细胞开始，到现在观看这个视频你。

What is the collective name for single-celled, microscopic organisms that live in the soil, water and animals?

在土壤、水和动物中单细胞微物名称是什么？

And a good fraction are what Macalady calls " genetic dark matter" -- the single-celled unknown.

其中有很大一部分是马卡拉帝所说“基因暗物质”--未知单细胞物。

Tiny living things like bacteria or other single-celled organisms reproduce by creating exact copies of themselves.

像细菌或其他单细胞物这样微小物会通过精确复制自己来进行繁殖。

This one's about a technique called single-cell sequencing.

这个是关于一种叫做单细胞测序技术。

But instead of having seeds, these plants reproduce by releasing tiny, single-celled spores.

但是这些植物没有种子，而是通过释放微小单细胞孢子进行繁殖。

That's because they evolved from the simplest form of life, a single-celled organism, independently of animals like us.

这是因为它们是从最简单单细胞物进化而来，独立于我们这样动物。