荧光猪

熒光豬
yíngguāngzhū
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 fluorescent pig (GFP-transgenic pig)

Examples

Kēxuéjiā péiyù chū le yī zhǒng yíngguāngzhū.
Scientists have bred a kind of fluorescent pig.
Yíngguāngzhū zài zǐwàixiàn xià huì fāchū lǜguāng.
Fluorescent pigs emit green light under ultraviolet.

Tips

culture
Most famous are the three GFP-transgenic piglets produced by Taiwan's National Taiwan University in 2006, which glowed green under UV light. They became a symbol of transgenic-animal research in Chinese-language media.

In Pop Culture

台湾荧光猪 Táiwān yíngguāngzhū
Taiwan fluorescent pigs
2006 transgenic piglets produced at National Taiwan University by inserting a jellyfish GFP gene; briefly world-famous for glowing green under UV.

Stroke Order

yíng
guāng
zhū