题干

      阅读下文,回答相关问题

                                                                                            移植记忆
      ①记忆也可移植,这听起来似天方夜谭,然而科学家们指出,随着科学的发展,这将会成为现实。
      ②科学家的研究发现,记忆的化学本质是蛋白质,人的记忆物质是存在于大脑中的一种叫脑肽的微小蛋白。人类智力的差异,主要取决于组成这种脑肽氨基酸的种类、数量、序列和空间结构的不同。因此美国学者詹姆斯·麦康内尔首先提出了记忆移植的理论,并用涡虫做了成功的记忆移植实验。此后许多学者用不同的动物进行了实验,结果也证实该理论的正确性。
      ③1978年德国科学家马田,从训练过的蜜蜂中提取出记忆蛋白,将其移植到没有接受训练的蜜蜂脑内,结果发现这些蜜蜂就像训练过的蜜蜂一样,每天能定时飞到放有蜜蜂的蜂房内就餐。
      ④英格兰的科学家也用蜜蜂做了相关的实验,他们首先用仪器将成年蜜蜂脑中的记忆蛋白提取出来,再将其注射到正在蜕变的幼蜂脑内。当幼蜂刚刚能飞时,将其带到一公里外成年蜂常来取蜜的蜜源处放飞,结果发现这些从小足未出户的小蜜蜂居然都能准确地返回蜂巢,而那些未接受记忆蛋白移植的蜜蜂却不能返回。
      ⑤美国科学家乔·昂加尔用老鼠做实验也证实了记忆能够移植的理论。他将老鼠觅食的鼠笼分成一明一暗两个室,并放上相同的食饵,在暗室内放上电击装置,每当老鼠到暗室取食时,就会受到电击。久而久之,在老鼠的大脑中就形成暗室危险、明室安全的概念。
      ⑥然后将这些老鼠解剖,结果在它们的大脑中发现了一种特殊的蛋白质,昂加尔将这种特殊的蛋白质注射到了无此经历的老鼠脑中,结果发现这些天生喜暗厌明的老鼠竟无一例外地直扑明室觅食。荷兰学者威克还发现,若给老鼠注射加压素(一种肽),老鼠就会变得聪明起来。
      ⑦那么记忆蛋白能否应用于人类呢?为此比利时科学家进行了大胆的实验:他们用加压素喷洒一位因车祸昏迷不醒的青年的鼻子,一天后这位青年记起了一些车祸的情况,一星期后就恢复了记忆。以后他们发现加压素不仅能恢复病人的记忆,而且能提高记忆力、识别力和注意力。
      ⑧当然,关于人类的记忆移植目前还在深入地研究之中,但是我们相信,在不远的将来一定会成为现实。

上一题 下一题 0.0难度 选择题 更新时间:2015-05-21 02:38:08

答案(点此获取答案解析)

同类题4

    When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, "No! You are going to college." He took me by surprise when he said, “OK. We'll go to the brick factory.”
    Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
    When we arrived at the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, “Take your time. Look around.” I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my father and said, “I want to go home.”
    He asked me, “What do you think of the factory?”
    "It's terrible," I replied.
    "And marriage is even worse!" he said.
    I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!