Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 200 The Taste of Victory

What organism has contributed the most to human biology?

Is it a monkey?rabbit?Pigeon?guinea pig?

If you really want to let biological researchers choose one, then many people should give such an answer - fruit flies.

Fruit flies, since Morgan's time, have been used on a large scale.

Its advantages are countless.As a species of Insecta Diptera, Drosophila, like most of its relatives, has the advantages of "strong reproductive ability and short life cycle".

Moreover, like most dipteran insects, it has a very high tolerance for "life".

Just put some small holes in an empty bottle, and throw in some rotten fruits that humans don't eat, and the fruit flies can multiply in large numbers.

Moreover, at a room temperature of 25 degrees Celsius, fruit flies can reproduce one generation every ten days.

From egg to sexual maturity to reproduction, it only takes ten days.

Then, Drosophila has only four pairs of chromosomes, which are small in number and have obvious differences in shape.

Depending on the huge population size, the traits of fruit flies vary a lot, such as the color of eyes, the shape of wings and other traits.

Therefore, Morgan could simply use the white-eyed Drosophila obtained naturally to verify the genetic laws summed up by Mendel.

It can be said that it is from this small animal that human beings' cognition of "biology" has been completely changed.

This is simply an ideal experimental animal.

Unless the experimental project is related to the advanced nervous system, otherwise, any geneticist with normal IQ would abandon this species that seems to be born to enter the laboratory, and instead insist on having 23 pairs of chromosomes, many traits and difficult to master , Sexual maturity takes at least 16 years, and large primates with strict requirements on diet and environment should hurry up to do inhumane experiments in the laboratory?

Even if a technology is finally implemented on the "human body", "human experiment" can only be the last step.

Before that, there are more good species with short life cycles that can help researchers explore unknown mysteries.

But this time, just like its kindred once helped Morgan, these little creatures helped Yawgmoth, taking another solid step.

On Yawgmoth's agar are the first instar larvae of Drosophila [the larvae that have just hatched from the egg until the first molt are called "first instar", and the larvae that are after the first molt and before the second molt are called "first instar". It’s called the second age, and so on] This thing is less than 0.5mm, and it doesn’t look much bigger than dust.

Xiang Shan could only see small wriggling dots.

But there is no doubt that it is what those flies got after mating.

Xiang Shan felt his heart beating hard.He opened his mouth and asked, "Didn't it mean that there will be occasional natural mating? The birth of these eggs is accidental?"

Yawgmoth shrugged his shoulders: "No, it's just that a small number of metal-based fruit flies can still snap. Probably because the gene's self-repair mechanism reshaped the 'sentence' about reproduction, allowing the inserted foreign Genetic information enters the process of sexual reproduction."

"what?"

Yawgmoth nodded: "Use the terms you are more familiar with. The genetic information of every living thing is actually an 'information base'. And our genetic material and enzyme system constitute the 'invocation'. statement of genetic information."

"The original call statement matches the database. It is precisely because of this that the genetic information is expressed in different forms. Therefore, the two species that share a large number of genes will show very different form."

"And we cracked the enzyme system, so I can insert a little bit of foreign information. This is the metal-based cells you have seen before. However, these foreign information, compatibility is problematic. So, when life's When a program runs and wants to call a piece of information to make it work at the appropriate time, it's buggy."

Xiang Shan was stunned for a moment: "So 'forgot to breed' is just a vicious bug?"

Yawgmoth nodded: "Yes, bug."

Xiang Shan slapped an ice-cooling sticker on his forehead: "That's over. There should be no more vicious bug in the history of evolution. No matter how vicious it is, the degree is similar to it-it can completely empty the race within one generation. what."

"However, I still like a line in "Jurassic Park", called 'Life will find its own way'." Yawgmoth pointed to the fruit fly: "A small number of fruit flies actually automatically repaired this bug."

Xiang Shan pressed his forehead: "You can't rely on luck with this thing..."

"No, I'm not counting on luck." Yawgmoth is very confident: "As long as it happens once, it means that under certain conditions, it can indeed happen. And as long as we master the 'condition' and control the variables, I will It’s okay to want it to repeat itself a few times.”

Genes have a strong ability to repair themselves.This is a built-in mechanism.

After all, the RNA and DNA used by earth organisms to store genetic information are really fragile.If the rare high-energy particles from the universe hit it accidentally, it may cause a small amount of information to be written or erased, rewriting the code of life.Viruses can do this too.There are even many organic poisons that can damage it.

But genetic information is still a largely stable thing.In the case of "errors" that are not serious, the genetic system also has the ability to self-correct.

This process happens all the time.

"That is to say, you think there is an unknown process or effect that can make up for this bug, at least so that our 'system' will not collapse." Xiang Shan nodded: "And it has already appeared in front of you. And What you have to do is to compare the genomes of these fruit flies that have completed self-repair with the genomes of fruit flies that have not completed self-repair, and confirm whether the genetic modification surgery has destroyed those genes and caused this mechanism to fail?"

"Almost." Yawgmoth nodded: "This process can be completed soon."

"Oh, I probably understand why you insisted on me coming here." Xiang Shan sighed deeply: "Tell me, what do you need?"

"The computer I originally asked you to order is definitely not enough. The data to be run is more than expected..."

"Sun!" Xiang Shan pointed his middle finger: "It's impossible to cancel the order! Do you think it's a home computer, and you can return it without reason before it arrives? It's for research institutions..."

"Oh, keep that equipment too. I'm asking for better computer equipment."

Xiang Shan looked at Yawgmoth: "Brother, our research institute has just put up a sign, funding and so on... If I didn't have to take the subway home later, I would pull out a hair for you to see right now." Do you believe it?"

"Pull out hair?" Yawgmoth was puzzled. "Is this some kind of strange republican custom?"

"No, it's to show my powerless and crazy heart." Xiang Shan walked to the door, picked up his jacket from the coat rack, then reached into his pocket and groped a few times: "Of course, if there is any equipment, The celebratory wine was brought."

Although the temperature in the laboratory can put a burly man down, Xiang Shan's padded jacket is not bad at keeping heat, so this small palm-sized bottle of Red Star Erguotou is still slightly cool after buying it.

Yawgmoth was surprised: "I thought I could open a bottle of champagne."

"There was no wine at first. I remembered it when I came here, so I bought it at the small shop at the intersection, and I was picked on." Xiang Shan shook his head: "When you go to the country, you do as the Romans do. We in old Beiping just like this—come, come, come."

Yawgmoth blew directly on the bottle.

Then want to squirt.

But after realizing that he might spray the fruit flies with a sip of wine, the man swallowed this unimaginably spicy liquid.

"What am I drinking? A cold fire?"

"This is what victory feels like, bro."

The two men leaned against the coldest wall of the laboratory, sat upright on the ground, and then shared a bottle of "Taste of Victory".

"I think it's fine," said the US scientist, whose accent was slightly altered by the alcohol.

Xiang Shan nodded.

He sat on the ground and watched the fruit flies.It seemed to him that the orange light from the heater was like circles of golden light.

In the insect net, is the shining golden future.

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"Gah." Xiang Shan unplugged the cable on his body again, and withdrew from the reading.

He is now leaning on the inner wall of the vehicle, sitting on the ground, in the same posture as before.

But it was pitch black directly opposite.

And the extraordinary vision given to him by the prosthetic eye let him know that directly opposite him were several buckets of refrigerant that he had stockpiled earlier.

"Am I an idiot? What kind of eyesight? What kind of rhetorical method? The feeling of 'seeing the future in a bug net'... Hahahahaha, what a joke."

"Now this world is really like being locked in a bug net."

"The 28-year-old me was obedient. The 37-year-old me had a brain hole."

Xiang Shan began to feel disgusted by these memories.

Although the high-spirited emotion in his heart told him that this was indeed his memory.

The "memory of subjective emotions" that he had divided was still echoing in his brain, reminding him of this.

However, Xiang Shan really couldn't contain his anger.

He simply put the hard drive away, then kicked open the door and rushed out.

Solo King Jardl is filming on a rock, observing the south with homemade optics.At this moment, the afterglow of the sun is gradually fading.It's time to set off again.

Xiang Shan walked up to the Solo King and asked, "Brother, did you find anything?"

"Well, it's nothing. Amilcare brought back some troops. However, the entire city has sunk below the horizon, and I can't see the mobilization of their ground troops, so I don't know exactly how many people they brought back."

Speaking of this, the single-kill king sighed: "Sure enough, I should have left a hidden command in that anti-aircraft gun position, let it count down ten hours and launch all the bombs."

(End of this chapter)