Chapter 14: Success

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the two chatted for a long time after dinner, and Zixuan didn't leave until midnight.

Because Cassia only has one room here, and Zixuan has a slight cleanliness habit, he will not easily share a bed with others, which is also a stalk that Cassia has been laughing at from childhood to adulthood, and will never run out.

There is also the fact that Zixuan has to get up early to go home the next day, after all, he hasn't seen his parents for a long time, he didn't say this in front of Cassia Ming, but Cassia already knows it in his heart.

After sending Zixuan away, Cassia did not rest, but immediately came to the Atlantic world.

On the first floor of the Moon Palace, Cassia was lying on a stone chair, looking at the ceiling, and his imagination was floating.

Because he found that he had overlooked a big problem, which he had just discovered from chatting with Zixuan, that is, 'not transcribing DNA'.

Generally speaking, it is generally accepted that only a part of the DNA of an organism carries genetic information, which is called 'gene'.

For the other part, it is speculated that there may be a regulatory role, or some other unknown role.

This is particularly evident in humans, where less than 10% of the DNA sequence carries genetic information, which means that only these 10% are commonly referred to as genes.

And what about the other 90 percent? What exactly does it do? No one knows, it's just speculation that there is a regulatory effect, and some viruses and so on, unwanted sequences that are reversed, or some hidden genes, such as the human tail gene.

But the only thing that is certain is that people know much less about this 90% than they do about 10%.

The four genetic templates that Cassia carefully observed and experimented with before were all ignored by him.

Thinking of this, Cassia lay on the stone chair and waved his hand, and a genetic template of the primordial mantis was displayed in front of him.

On the template, cyan photoclusters mark out segment after segment of the genetic sequence and show what traits it controls.

But Cassia found that all the marked segments, stripped of the overlapping small parts, when combined, accounted for nearly 90% of the entire DNA length, which is obviously unreasonable.

Unless, when the cyan light cluster marks a certain trait, it not only counts the corresponding genes, but also counts some passages that do not contain genetic information.

Cassia's mind moved, his fingers kept swinging back and forth, and the genetic template was broken down by him, and after temporarily discarding the other sequences, Cassia alone enlarged the DNA sequence that controlled the body shape in front of him.

He tried to communicate the cyan light cluster, trying to isolate the part of the sequence that had genetic information.

In sight, the DNA sequences gradually disintegrate and recombine to form two shorter sequences.

Cassia's eyes lit up: "There's a play!"

Then he looked at these two sequences and thought again:

"This paragraph has genetic information, this paragraph does not have, but they are all sequences that control body shape, borrowing from part of epigenetics, assuming that this sequence without genetic information plays the role of regulation and switching. ”

"Then if I ignore its changes and directly take out the sequence with genetic information and transplant it into the sparrow's template, so that the sparrow's own regulatory sequence can regulate its body shape by itself, which is equivalent to me artificially raising the growth limit of the sparrow's body size. ”

"It can be understood that I changed the engine of the car, but the person driving the car did not change. ”

"But if it is in nature, if you want to grow to the maximum size, you also need the influence of the environment, and the survival of the fittest will slowly eliminate the small ones and leave the large ones. ”

"But I can directly condense ah, I can directly create sparrows that are theoretically up to the upper limit. ”

Thinking of this, Cassia suddenly came to his senses, he felt that he might have found a real solution, so he hurriedly went up to the third floor of the Moon Palace and began to prepare for a new experiment.

In fact, in the previous half-month-long experiment, Cassia had not gained anything except for meat balls and meat slimes.

After summarizing, first of all, he found that when he relied on genetic templates to condense entities and create life, he could deliberately not fix certain genes, for example, if he strictly created according to a genetic template, and each gene was exactly the same, then the individuals he created would be exactly the same, and this would become a clone.

But if he deliberately ignores certain genes, such as controlling the color of the feather and controlling the color of the pupil, then the individual he creates will be random in the color of the feather and pupil.

To do this, he recorded in a small notebook the first law he discovered: the 'law of performance'

The specific explanation is that although the genetic template of a certain organism is externally expressed as the individual genes selected at that time, under the deliberate and selective control, the organisms created by it can contain all the manifestations in the gene pool of that species.

Of course, this is also Cassia can't help it, he can't create life entirely by his own mind now, for example, the sparrow gene template was selected for dark yellow feathers at that time, so the only thing he can create independently is dark yellow sparrows.

You want red sparrows? Yes, randomly, you get a hundred and eighty first, and there will always be one or two that will be red, and if not, then there are not enough samples.

Or you can choose a sparrow that is close to red, detain its genetic template, create it from it, and then select it.

When Cassia recorded this, he remembered a story he had heard when he was a child, saying that an old grandmother had grown black roses or carnations, and that was the way she used.

Also based on this law, although Cassia didn't figure out why the male template randomly selected the female, or vice versa, he didn't delve into it for the time being, he felt that it might be because he didn't know enough about the cyan light cluster, or that his ability was insufficient.

Secondly, the second experience he summed up is that directly condensing biological larvae consumes much less spiritual points than condensing adult bodies.

He was very happy about this, after all, he could adjust the speed of time, create a hatchling, throw it here, go back to the real world, and grow up.

But at this time, Cassia didn't have time to think about this, and after he went up to the third layer, he directly called up the genetic template of the sickle monster, and decomposed and combined the sequences that controlled its body shape, and obtained a sequence with genetic information.

Then he took out the sparrow's template, which was also the sequence that controlled the body size, Cassia kept its original, non-genetic part unchanged, replaced the part that was deducted from the sickle, and then restored, and got a new template.

After doing this, Cassia held the newly obtained genetic light cluster and slowly walked towards the glass room, while praying in his heart that he would succeed.

But then he was amused by himself, and now that he has become like this, if there is really a god and Buddha in the sky, it will not be a thunderbolt to smash himself.

After getting ready, Cassia began to use his spirit points, and gradually wanted to condense the entity, at this time his spirit points were only 40 units, which shows how many experiments he had done in the previous half month.

The process of condensation is much the same, under Cassia control, he only keeps this sequence of controlling the body shape unchanged, and everything else is random, which is also the problem he wants to see stability.

This template is fine, it does not mean that the gene pool of this species will not contain the possibility of collapse, and if it does, it may become a hidden danger of extinction.

Time passed little by little, and Cassia's spiritual points were also consumed little by little, and gradually, a smile appeared on the corner of Cassia's mouth.

Because the consumption of a sparrow is only 1 unit at most, but he has now invested two units, and there is no sign of stopping, which shows that there may really be a play.

In the end, Cassia consumed a total of 3 units of spirit points, and finally condensed.

When the light disappeared, Cassia's heart was relaxed, and in the glass room, a one-man tall sparrow opened its eyes, saw Cassia at a glance, and then pounced on it, and the ordinary glass of the glass room was like a piece of white paper being broken under its sharp beak.

The sparrow flapped its wings and ran comically towards Cassia and rubbed it affectionately against his neck.

Cassia was stunned, firstly, his experiment was really successful, and secondly, he was ...... Does it treat itself as a mother?

"I've become a Yang?"

Cassia was in a daze, and stiffly stroked the sparrow's neck, and there was a tremor from the other party's body, and at the same time made a cooing sound in response.

I really want to give myself a trophy, that's what Cassia thought after he reacted.

Subsequently, in order to avoid the previous situation, like the cicada, which lived for a while and then died, Cassia made a long record and observation of the sparrow.

It wasn't until two days later (Atlanta Standard Time) that Cassia was relieved, and this time it was really stable, while recording the data in a small notebook.

However, despite this, he found a problem, that is, the sparrow could not fly, and his body seemed to be relatively weak.

Later, after Cassia experiments, it was believed that it was a nutritional problem, and although he would go outside every day to get some meat back, there was a big problem with the sparrow's digestive system and the body's energy supply.

This also leads to the fact that it can only be placed in the yard as a mascot, and once it goes out, it will definitely die.

On the stone chair on the first floor of the Moon Palace, Cassia lay on it with a small notebook and wrote with a brush.

"Well, if a sequence with no genetic information is named a control sequence, maybe there is more than one control network in the DNA, and a single change in a certain trait requires other combinations. ”

This is equivalent to changing the engine of the car, and the person driving the car has not changed, but the driver is a novice, and he can't let the person who just got his driver's license drive a sports car, and he has to fly to the fastest, and drift by the way.

"I still have to adjust, but compared to before, it's not so complicated, go back and ask Zixuan about this, but I only have 37 spirit points, so I have to save some use." ”