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The dust that accumulates in the corners of your house does more than cause allergies1 and aggravations. It's also teeming2 with clues about where you live and who you live with. That's the finding of a study in the Proceedings3 of Royal Society B. Researchers had volunteers at nearly twelve hundred homes across the US collect indoor and outdoor dust samples. The average home dust contains about fivethousand types of bacteria and two thousand types of fungi4. The fungi gave away a lot about home's location. Different regions have different fungi populations, and thus so do houses within those regions. For example, dwellings5 around the Great Lakes had very different fungi than its homes at Arizona, because most household fungi originate outside and common either on people's clothes or through windows and doors. As for the bacteria, those are the strong indicators6 of the identity of the homes' residents. Much of the bacteria were shed by the human body and was a pretty good indicator7 of a home's gender8 ratio. The single-celled organisms also showed whether a pet shared the home. Cats and dogs make their own contributions to indoor bacteria ? The research couldn't form forensic9 investigations10 and allergy11 studies. In the mean time what can we take from these findings? Well you can clean up dust but you can't change its composition, that is , unless you move or make some changes in the pets and people you live with.
1 allergies | |
n.[医]过敏症;[口]厌恶,反感;(对食物、花粉、虫咬等的)过敏症( allergy的名词复数 );变态反应,变应性 | |
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2 teeming | |
adj.丰富的v.充满( teem的现在分词 );到处都是;(指水、雨等)暴降;倾注 | |
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3 proceedings | |
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报 | |
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4 fungi | |
n.真菌,霉菌 | |
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5 dwellings | |
n.住处,处所( dwelling的名词复数 ) | |
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(仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的)指针( indicator的名词复数 ); 指示物; (车辆上的)转弯指示灯; 指示信号 | |
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n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器 | |
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n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性 | |
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adj.法庭的,雄辩的 | |
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10 investigations | |
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究 | |
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n.(因食物、药物等而引起的)过敏症 | |
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