2. Genetically modified?

With Shi Yang's words on the side, you don't have to worry about being lonely on the road. The two easily found the biology teaching and research department of the laboratory building, signed up, paid the money, received the materials, and then went to the dormitory to settle down their luggage according to the teacher's prompts, and waited for the official start of the training in the afternoon.

The dormitory is the vacant student dormitory of Rokuchao Middle School, the kind of room for four people. According to the teacher, in order to welcome their arrival, the school specially asked someone to clean it, replace the mattress sheets and quilts, and prepare toiletries, which definitely made the biological wizards from all over the province feel "at home".

Jiang Shuiyuan had never lived in a student dormitory before, and he was looking forward to it. Shi Yang is an old oilman, he has been living in the school since he was in junior high school, and he has been living until now, staying in the dormitory longer than at home every year. When I heard that Jiang Shuiyuan had never lived in the school, I immediately volunteered to tell him some interesting anecdotes that happened in the student dormitory, such as someone falling off the top bunk in the middle of the night and breaking his leg, and someone taking a shower only once a semester, etc., which opened Jiang Shuiyuan's eyes.

As they spoke, the two of them bypassed the school's playground and cafeteria, and saw tall trees, green grass, exquisite and luxurious Chinese-style townhouses located among flowers and trees, as well as rockery ponds, pavilions and water pavilions, which are simply modern versions of private gardens. Shi Yang was dumbfounded, and asked with some hesitation: "Jiang Shuiyuan, are you sure that this place is a student dormitory, not a star-rated hotel?"

Jiang Shuiyuan was also a little unsure, and looked carefully at the signs on the side of the road: "According to the words 'student dormitory', 'student dormitory' and 'dormitory' on the signs, it should be a student dormitory." But that's too much of an exaggeration, isn't it? I think the student dormitories at Jingshi University are just like that!"

"Jingshi University's student dormitory?" Shi Yang glanced at Jiang Shuiyuan, "You shouldn't have watched the Jingshi University documentary or related introduction materials, right?"

"Why do you say that?"

"As we all know, the most awesome thing about Jingshi University is the teachers, students, and scientific research conditions that are so strong that they have no friends. For example, the teacher has a quota of 320 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. More than half of them are in Jingshi University, so much so that they once playfully put up a sign on the campus: 'Be careful, academicians are infested!' and then so many colleges and universities and scientific research institutes in the country can only divide up the remaining half. Another example is the conditions for scientific research, their slogan is 'we must have the scientific research equipment that other schools have, and what other schools do not have.' We also want to strive for it. In fact, they did. As for the accommodation conditions, they have always been very simple, although they are not the worst in the capital, but they are definitely not good, and they can't be compared with these local tyrant buildings in front of them!"

"The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling! The school dared to be named 'Six Dynasties Middle School', because people had the confidence to show the towering pavilions and gold powder of the Six Dynasties, unlike us Jiangbei people who say that the back of the horse is swollen when they see a camel. Let's go. Our country buns are also entering the city this time!"

It is true that it is said that it is a bun that entered the city. After walking a few steps, you can see that the surrounding area is full of ginkgo trees, decades-old cinnabar cinnamon, and even rare and endangered plants such as Baohua magnolia and fragrant fruit trees. Jiang Shuiyuan is still calm, and Shi Yang, who is naturally broken-mouthed, is like Grandma Liu who has just entered the Grand View Garden, and her mouth has never been idle:

"Hey, hey, Jiang Shuiyuan, do you see if that little thing lying on the Masson pine is a red-bellied squirrel?"

"I'll go. What's that clump by the pond? Could it be the legendary Chinese leeks?"

"Ahhmma, a new genus of witch hazel that was discovered not long ago, and why was it introduced here so quickly?"

……

was led by Shi Yang to know countless species of animals and plants. And after being popularized a lot of taxonomic knowledge, Jiang Shuiyuan was able to get out and come to his dormitory. Before I could enter the door, I heard two young men with different accents arguing loudly in broken Mandarin:

"Whether GMOs are safe or not needs to be explained from the perspective of scientific research, rather than relying on closed-door worry. Judging from the results of the current research. Scientists have relatively sufficient evidence that the safety issues involved in genetically modified technologies and products do not exceed the various safety risks currently known, that is, from the inductive results of previous experimental data. The safety of GMO technology is guaranteed!"

"Judging from the results of the current research, this is precisely the crux of the problem! The fact that genetically modified organisms are safe now does not mean that they will be safe in the next few decades or centuries. It's like when DDT (commonly known as DDT) was invented, who could have accurately recognized that it was very difficult to degrade in the environment and could accumulate in animal fat, becoming the main reason why some carnivorous and fish-eating birds were close to extinction?"

"You're quibbling! Does penicillin cause death due to allergic reactions? Are tetracyclines so badly side effects? Shouldn't human beings study and use them because of this? It is true that DDT will cause the near-extinction of some carnivorous and fish-eating birds, but no one can deny that it has made great contributions to preventing agricultural pests and diseases and alleviating the harm of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria at the beginning of its invention! In the same way, genetically modified technology may have defects or side effects of one kind or another. I'm afraid that I won't be able to walk at night if I hit a ghost!"

Can genetically modified technology be the same as penicillin and tetracycline? The harm caused by penicillin and tetracycline is, after all, individual, neither transmitted nor inherited. Genetically modified technology, on the other hand, is species-specific, and is likely to inadvertently cause large-scale genetic contamination, and artificially altering the stable genetic structure formed over millions or even hundreds of millions of years in nature also has a huge hidden danger of triggering the extinction of large-scale organisms, and the consequences are catastrophic and devastating!"

"Wasn't the Black Death devastating? Wasn't the potato famine in Ireland catastrophic? If the dinosaurs didn't engage in genetically modified technology, they wouldn't have become extinct! In my opinion, genetically modified technology is like nuclear physics in those days, and if we don't speed up the process of commercializing genetically modified organisms, we may fall behind other countries, lose our status as a biotechnology power, and weaken our industrial competitiveness. This is catastrophic, devastating!"

"You!" The short and thin boy with a southern accent couldn't argue, so he had to look for the allies, and then he saw Jiang Shuiyuan standing at the door: "Which of the two of us do you think is right?"

"I? I can't say that either. Jiang Shuiyuan was inexplicably a little stunned: "I just think that by adjusting genes, I will definitely be able to obtain better traits, but there must also be a danger of gene chain collapse, the key depends on how you compromise and weigh it, right?" )