Chapter 201 Genetic Engineering
You may not have noticed what General Davidson's last name is, his surname is Rockefeller, he is a member of the Rockefeller family, and more specifically, he is the spokesperson of the elite group that controls Citigroup behind the scenes.
Dr. Su, you are a double doctor at Harvard, you should have an in-depth study of the Citigroup magnates, do you think the Citigroup magnates will want the Orcs to have human lifespan and intelligence, and then under the advocacy of various human rights organizations, they will slowly get the same treatment and power as human beings, and eventually compete with natural people for the right to rule the earth?"
Su Yu looked at him stunned, "Professor, you are so sure that the elite of Citigroup will follow your routine, in case it ......"
"There is no case, in this era, the center of power in Citigroup is still the first few large families who immigrated from the Old World, they are Puritans in their bones, believe in Calvinism, believe that the Bible is the only supreme authority, maybe over time, there will be a loosening on women's rights and human rights issues, and even in order to maintain their own lighthouse image, forgive the blacks who once betrayed the United States, and re-praise them as black lives, but on the orcs, they will not let go, this is one of them.
Second, the orcs have a stronger physical fitness, but their intelligence will not decline, if they continue to grow, one day they begin to demand the redistribution of social resources, demand to obtain the same social status and social power as natural people, and even ask for privileges under the influence of pluralistic thoughts, which is the so-called fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, do you think the power of natural people can resist? The magnates can control the armed forces composed of natural persons to protect their special interests, but when it comes to interracial and bribing the forces composed of orcs to maintain their status as elites, do you think it is possible?"
Puritans originated in Europe and were reformers who demanded the removal of the remnants of Catholicism from the Anglican Church of England, and the Puritans embraced Calvinism, believing that the Bible was the only supreme authority and that no church or individual could be the interpreter or defender of traditional authority.
In the middle of the 17th century, when the Royalist Assembly of England passed the "Confession of the State Religion Law", the Puritans began to be brutally suppressed by the official and ecclesiastical forces, arrests, torture, and religious trials, threatening the Puritans at every moment, and they were forced to leave.
Although the world is big, where is the fate of this group of people who have fallen to the ends of the world? Thinking about it, they set their sights on the Americas.
The "New World", discovered by Christopher Columbus more than 100 years ago, is vast and rich, and there are many places where there are no kings, no parliaments, no executioners, and unexplored virgin lands. "The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high for the birds to fly. Only in such a place could they live easily, freely profess and propagate their favorite religion, and carve out a paradise on earth that belongs to the Puritans.
In September 1620, the Mayflower, carrying 102 Puritans and their families, left the Old Continent for North America, and after more than two months of arduous sailing, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled there.
In the first winter, due to lack of food, cold weather, epidemics, and overwork, more than half of the Puritans died at once. In the spring of the following year, the local Indian tribe chieftain Masasod led the good-hearted Indians, gave the Puritans grain seeds, and taught them to hunt, grow crops, fish, etc., with the help of the Indians, the Puritans reaped a good harvest that year.
As the first immigrants and founders of Citigroup, the Puritans had an extraordinary love for the land, so they directly repaid the Indians who had helped them by killing, and only then did they have the territory of Citigroup today.
Su Yu thought of the history of Citigroup's fortune, and felt that Li Suifeng's words were indeed reasonable, and he didn't know where to start for a while, so he had to remain silent.
Li Lan asked beside her, "So what is the principle of genetic engineering that can solve the problem of rejection of the human immune system? I have read popular science, but I still don't understand why it can be successful." ”
Li Suifeng said: "The theoretical basis of GM technology comes from molecular biology derived from the theory of evolution. To put it simply, it is to isolate the DNA segment with the target gene from the complex genome of the biological organism, or go further, use the coding method to synthesize the target gene, or extract the corresponding gene fragment from the gene library and PCR technology for the proliferation of the target gene.
The first step is to bind the gene of interest to the carrier. This step is outside the cell, the DNA segment with the gene of interest is connected to the transport carrier molecule that can self-replicate and has multiple selective markers by cutting, bonding, etc., usually selecting plasmids, T4 phages, animal and plant viruses, etc., to form recombinant DNA molecules, and then injecting the recombinant DNA molecules into the recipient cell, that is, the host cell or host cell), and then the cell with the recombinant is expanded to obtain a large number of cell propagules.
Then, from a large number of cell breeding populations, recombinant cells with recombinant DNA molecules were screened by corresponding reagents.
After obtaining recombinant cells that can meet the purpose, a large number of proliferations are carried out to obtain the corresponding expression of functional proteins, which show the expected characteristics and meet people's requirements. Artificial selection is then carried out from the recombinant for several generations to obtain individuals with stable expression of specific genetic traits.
In our baseline space-time, rough engineering of transgenesis can be divided into three broad categories.
The first is plant genetic engineering, as the name suggests, is to carry out transgenic operations on plants, which can obtain certain genetic characteristics of plants through protoplast fusion, cell recombination, genetic material transfer, and chromosome engineering technology, and cultivate new crop varieties with high yield, high quality, anti-virus, insect-resistant, cold-resistant, drought-resistant, waterlogging-resistant, salinity-alkali resistant, herbicide-resistant, etc., such as the most famous genetically modified soybean.
The second is microbial genetic recombination engineering, which is the most uncontroversial and widely used transgenic technology in our time and space.
Compared with animals and plants, microbial recombinant technology has the characteristics of short cycle, remarkable effect and strong control, so it is widely used in the biomedical and enzyme preparation industries. For example, yeast expression system, E. coli expression system and filamentous fungal expression system, among which Pichia pastoris expression system and E. coli expression system are the most popular, and all kinds of yogurt we drink daily are their products.
The third is animal transgenic engineering, which is the most controversial technology in reference time and space, and it is also the technology that has the greatest impact on the fate of mankind.
According to the pre-design, it is possible to breed transgenic animals by introducing foreign genes into germ cells such as male and female factors or fertilized eggs through cell fusion, cell recombination, genetic material transfer, chromosome engineering and genetic engineering technology.
Through the transfer of auxin genes, prolific genes, ovivotropin genes, high milk production genes, lean meat genes, keratin genes, anti-parasitic genes, antiviral genes and other genes, it is possible to breed short growth cycles, more litters, more eggs and high milk production, for example, transgenic super mice can be about twice as large as ordinary mice. The meat and fur quality and processing performance of livestock and poultry production are good, and they have disease resistance, and have achieved certain results in cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, fish and other domestic animals.
However, due to the influence of genetic mosaicism and heterozygosity, the sexual reproductive offspring of transgenic animals are highly variable, and it is difficult to form stable genetic transgenic lines. Therefore, scientists have developed new ideas, trying to introduce foreign genes into mitochondria, and then into the fertilized egg, due to the cytoplasmic inheritance of mitochondria, its sexual offspring may all be transgenic individuals, and can be passed on from generation to generation, in essence, these transgenic animals can even be called new species created by humans, but these are not things, after all, the application is animals, at most it is to become the rhythm of the unscrupulous media.
What really caused the destruction of the world is that human beings intend to extract the unique gene fragments of various animals and plants, and then transplant them to humans, and also make these traits hidden from the surface, such as the dog's sense of smell and the eagle's eyesight, but the modified human with these abilities has a nose that is not the shape of a dog's nose, and the eyes are not cross-eyed, in other words, to create a super human.
From ancient times to modern times, there are many frenzied organizations or cults that have tried to hybridize humans and beasts or beasts, hoping to produce powerful hybrid creatures, but without exception they have failed.
We now know that this is because there is reproductive isolation between organisms, and different groups of gametophytes, gametes, chromosomes, or genes cannot interact with each other, resulting in inability to reproduce offspring or the offspring produced are incapable of reproduction, such as ligers and mules.
However, the development of modern gene technology has enabled human beings to get a glimpse of the nature of heredity. Ribonucleic acid, a miraculous substance, constitutes a base, a string of bases through different combinations to form a genetic code, the genetic code through transcriptase to produce a variety of proteins, proteins show a variety of traits, the external form of our planet is composed of colorful organisms.
With the help of continuous advances in genetic technology and supercomputers, Citi people were the first to find those base pairs responsible for reproductive isolation from billions of base pairs, and thus began the operation of thinking that God was actually the devil.
I can give you an example, the germ cells of living things, like zippers. Between the same species, there is a zipper pull, so the male factor can be combined with the female factor, just like the zipper on a piece of clothing, without any sense of disobedience.
However, between different organisms, because there are genetic fragments responsible for reproductive isolation, just like different zipper heads on different clothes, so the zipper can't be pulled up, even if you forcibly buckle the chain teeth with your hands, they will fall off all at once, which is why all kinds of hybrid attempts have failed since ancient times.