It's not that hard to open a hospital in another world, right?

Chapter 1324 Can extraordinary factors be inherited?
"Is this... the extraordinary secret..."

Gretel stood there in a daze, staring at the rotating light screen next to the moving tower spirit.

Just now he was lazy and poured a bottle of fruit fly salivary glands into the electron microscope—fortunately, there were not many.

The electron microscope worked diligently for most of the day, which gave him a big mess.Black, white, black, white...

Long and short, short and long, black and white.

Some of these chromosomes are complete, most of them have been broken, and some are even so fragmented that it is impossible to tell which fruit fly they belong to——

However, among these shattered strips, dotted with dots, thin golden lights appeared!

Gretel didn't know if he could see such a golden light under the orthodox electron microscope in his previous life;
But now, in the "electron microscope" of the magic hand, it is clear that a part of the chromosome of the fruit fly responds to these electrons, or the related magic.

And this kind of reaction, under the reflection of the electron microscope, and under the display of the mobile tower, it becomes a little bit of golden light outside the black and white strips...

"Is this going to be advanced?"

Celia also leaned over to watch.Gretel didn't answer her, but held his breath and watched carefully for a long time.

The number of times the golden light appears is not much, 100 fruit flies, all the salivary glands, see no more than ten golden light spots;
And every point of golden light must be a fragmented and broken strip, and there is no completeness...

"is that so……"

Gretel murmured in thought.Cerilla turned around, turned around and turned around, almost dying of anxiety:
"What the hell is going on!"

It's a pity that Gretel didn't have time to answer her for the time being.He stared at those golden lights without moving, as if his whole body had become a statue.

After a long time, the statue turned its head in a daze, one by one, and turned to move the tower spirit.His eyes fell on Ta Ling, he suddenly took a long breath, and his voice became decisive and firm:

"Taling. Analyze the chromosomes, mark the chromosomes with golden parts, and their corresponding chromosomes—"

"Received. Analyze immediately and mark immediately."

Tallinn replied flatly, and then buzzed, buzzed, and buzzed to work.After a long time, nine pairs of chromosomes were specially marked.

Gretel stared at it for a long time, then heaved a long sigh of relief:
"That's it..."

Those golden spots, on their opposite chromosome, did not appear.Moreover, every chromosome with a golden spot is severely broken...

"So, when you step into the extraordinary, will there be changes in the chromosomes? And this change will affect the replication of the chromosomes. No matter what the reason is, if the replication fails, the result is death?"

Gretel thought silently.Eating the fruit juice of the middle-level magic plant has a certain chance of causing the fruit fly to mutate, causing it to undergo extraordinary changes at the chromosome level;
However, it is because of external forces, or other reasons—in short, during the process of cell division and replication, chromosomes are not supported.

The golden part replicated incorrectly, failed to replicate, and the chromosome was broken...

Then, the fruit fly dies tragically, failing to make that crucial leap.

"If the guess is correct, then other fruit flies should also have chromosomal mutations... As the juice concentration decreases, the number of mutations should generally decrease..."

Gretel was gearing up.He poured out the fruit flies that had died before, one by one, and dealt with them one by one——

Thanks to the modified magic circle, I no longer have to work so hard to pick out the salivary glands. After pouring out a bottle, there will be a small pile of salivary glands, and pouring out another bottle, there will be a small pile of salivary glands...

"Electron microscope! Scan! Look for parts with golden light!"

"Move the tower spirit! Mark! Analyze!"

The analysis results are extremely gratifying.

From 1/2 concentration fruit juice, to 1/5 concentration fruit juice, to 1/20 concentration fruit juice, the proportion of mutant chromosome fragments in Drosophila has been decreasing, but it has always existed.

Accompanying the existence of golden light is the phenomenon of chromosome breakage, without exception.

"If this is the case, then the fruit flies raised in low-concentration juice should also have a chance to advance..."

This is consistent with Gretel's common sense, or in other words, it is also consistent with his previous life's common sense.

Reading Xianxia novels in the previous life, those children from aristocratic families who ate spirit rice and spirit beast meat were easier to advance than children from poor families;

In this life, mages don't talk about it - mages mainly rely on research to advance, not food and drink, but the knights Gretel knows, even the temple knights, need a lot of meat, and the supply of monster meat...

Of course, this guess still needs to be verified experimentally.

Gretel rolled up his sleeves and kept trying.Since 1/20 concentration is still dead, and 1/50 concentration is not dead, then, first try out the half-lethal dose?

Tick ​​tock, tock tock.Gretel prepared thirty bottles of fruit juice in one go, and poured it down without hesitation.Filled a batch, poured another batch...

This experiment alone took a full five days, mainly to make juice, control the concentration, and count the fruit flies, which was really annoying.

If there weren't enough skeleton soldiers to help, Gretel and Cerilla alone would not know how long it would take.

One concentration, another concentration, and another concentration. Hundreds of bottles were prepared, and the half-lethal dose, or the concentration closest to the half-lethal dose, was presented in front of Gretel:

不是1/20和1/50的中间值，也就是说1/35。而是一个非常微妙的数值，1/42.37……

Gretel missed the pipette terribly.Alas, if there is a high-precision pipette gun, it will be much more convenient to prepare this thing...

But fortunately, let the mobile tower spirit control the dark golden skeleton, and let the dark golden skeleton do fine operations, the effect is also very good.When His Excellency the Immortal designed this group of skeleton soldiers, he clearly considered the needs of research...

With the half-lethal dose, the efficiency of the subsequent mutagenesis work will be much higher.Gretel picked four at random out of 10 vials of Kill Fly Half on the shelf.

Command the live fruit flies to change to another bottle, pour out the dead fruit flies, collect the salivary glands, and throw the electron microscope:

Well, at this concentration, among the four bottles of fruit flies, one bottle has no light spots, and the other three bottles have 1~2 spots respectively...

"Grete, what about those who are alive?"

"What should I do? Keep raising it!"

Gretel took a deep breath.Those fruit flies that have passed the half-lethal test and survived continue to be raised to watch them pass on to the next generation.

Randomly divided into five groups, one group was fed with half the lethal dose of fruit juice, and the force of nature was used to promote their rapid growth and rapid reproduction;
One group was fed with a half-lethal dose of fruit juice, allowing them to grow and reproduce naturally;
One group was fed with 1/50 concentration fruit juice to promote rapid growth and reproduction with the power of nature;
One group was fed with 1/50 concentration fruit juice to let them grow and reproduce naturally;

The last group, fed with normal food, let them grow and reproduce naturally...

In such a comparison, the first group grew to maturity within a day and reproduced one generation.Gretel was pleasantly surprised to find that the second generation of fruit flies, fed with half the lethal amount of fruit juice, died less!

This is... an increased tolerance to extraordinary juice?

In other words, is it not far from advanced? !

Gretel's eyes brightened.

He threw dead fruit flies to pick out salivary glands and scan for chromosomes.Sure enough, he made an extremely exciting discovery:
The gold in the chromosome has a slightly increased proportion.Moreover, on the chromosome on the opposite side, golden light spots also appeared!
Extraordinary factors, even if they do not reach the point where individuals can directly advance, can they be inherited, and can they continue to accumulate in the chromosomes?

(End of this chapter)