Note
stylish おしゃれな；

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On Sunday, a friend showed me his new e-bike. It was cool! It was small, and it had a battery inside the frame, not on the outside. The bicycle folded up so that it was easy to take on a trip. According to the company website, you can go up to 80 kilometers on the battery, so you don’t have to worry about the battery dying on your way back home from work. Electric bicycles have been around for more than 20 years, but they used to be very expensive. The batteries have gotten cheaper, the motors have gotten lighter, and the electronics have gotten better, but until now, I never thought they were stylish. His bicycle changed my mind.　(by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
inherit 受け継ぐ;
trait (人・ものの)特性、特色;
wondrous すばらしい;

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It is a well-known fact that we inherit physical traits from our parents. If a child is left-handed, it is very likely that one of her parents writes with his or her left hand. If a boy’s father is bald, he will have a greater chance of going bald when he gets older. While everyone knew that physical traits were inherited, it wasn’t until the twentieth century that scientists discovered the biological key to this process: DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Finding DNA took almost 100 years. Now scientists are working to decode the DNA molecule. To do this, they must “read” each of the over 3 billion DNA letters in the human body. This decoding of human DNA, also known as the human genome 2 project, will result in a map of the DNA in the human body. As former U.S. President Clinton said, “Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.” (From the book of “Language & Life Sciences: Mapping the Human Genome”)
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