I like the idea of dancing as a common function in life, something everybody participates in.

我喜欢跳舞这类所有人都能参与的活动。

The paragraph emphasizes Michael Strano's, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, belief in the potential of engineered plants to replace common functions.

该段强调了麻省理工学院化学工程教授迈克​​尔·斯特拉诺 (Michael Strano) 对工程植物取代普通功能的潜力的信念。

But with that ground already covered, we're going to skip ahead to when groups of similar cells come together to perform a common function, in our tissues.

但是既然这已经涵盖了这一领域，我们就直接跳过这一话题，看看在我们的组织中，相似的细胞聚集在一起执行共同的功能。