"Whether you disrupt or activate a gene, once a mutation is generated, it will affect the generation of proteins and cause either suppression or overexpression of a particular function, and the gene characteristic is changed," says Yu, citing mutant paddy rice as an example.
「不論是破壞或活化，基因一旦產生變異，就會影響蛋白質的生產，造成功能喪失或過度表現，性狀也就隨之改變。」