The milk sugar lactose is broken down by the enzyme lactase .
奶中的乳糖由乳糖酶分解。
A competing hypothesis argues that ancient europeans domesticated milk-bearing livestock because lactase persistence was already quite common in certain populations .
另一个假说争论说,远古欧洲人之所以畜养产奶牲畜是因为乳糖酶持续性基因已经在人群中有了一定的比例。
In most cases mammals stop producing lactase after weaning but a nucleotide switch in their dna can keep lactase flowing into adulthood a trait called lactase persistence .