Chapter 38: The Plan of Life

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As a result of this strange phenomenon, the races have a great desire and fear for the origin of their own life, for the understanding of how the life of the race has developed, and for fear of the possible and unknown outcome.

Thus, on March onwards, a vast experimental project that has lasted for thousands of years began.

This experimental project is mainly based on biological science, and the purpose is of course not simply to find the origin of life, but is mainly divided into two parts, one is called the anti-gene project, and the other is called the life form exploration project.

These two plans are not the same, and the latter one has already started when it is still in the Blue Lotus Star period.

The name "Project Reverse Genetic" was proposed by White Night, a reference to the genetic lock depicted in the Infinite Novel.

Infinite Novel Description: Gene lock, refers to the most basic potential hidden in the human body, a large part of the human gene fragments have not been used, these genes are a portrayal of the evolution of life on the earth, from the most primitive single-celled life, to fish, reptiles, to humans, many kinds of gene fragments can be found in it, and even some human beings do not know their use and origin of genes, the so-called opening of the gene lock, is to enable these sleeping gene fragments, Use to push the limits of the potential in the human body. (From Baidu Encyclopedia)

In Bai Ye's understanding, genetic locks should not exist only in the human race, but in life. A chicken, a butterfly, a mouse, a fish, they all have sleeping fragments in their genes.

In terms of the possible process of the evolution of life, it refers to indefinite people, chickens, butterflies, mice, fish, etc. There is also overlap in the sleeping gene segments.

According to the anti-gene project, researchers of various ethnic groups are ready to record the entire genetic map and analyze the genetic code in it to deduce the origin of life.

It's a very creative idea, and it's rooted in the present. Step by step, from the present to the beginning, from the present to the beginning.

It's like we've seen a grown tree, and now we're trying to reconstruct the whole process of how the tree once grew.

Of course, it is more complicated and difficult to reverse the genes and explore the original origin than to restore the growth process of trees.

This difficulty stems from two main reasons: one is the unknown conditions for the expression of sleeping genes.

To put it simply, we don't know what kind of environment is needed for sleeping genes to be expressed. For example, what substance it needs, how high the temperature, whether it needs water, etc., it is impossible to shout "I want to go against the sky, I don't accept it", under strong stimulation and external pressure, the sleeping gene fragments in the body will open on their own, begin to translate and transcrib, and form a unique function.

Like fish eggs, they are suitable for hatching in water. You can't put it in an arid and water-scarce environment and call it the same as it hatches.

So. In order to unravel the dormant gene chain, researchers need to conduct experiments that are difficult to count the number of times, and through analogies, they can simulate the environment in which organisms once lived, express them bit by bit, and then control them.

In the long history of the evolution of life on Earth. Without a time machine, it is difficult to determine the living conditions of the first life, and the creatures of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic generations survived in their own era (there are certain organisms that can be crossed), while at the same time undergoing brutal natural selection and evolution.

I can't know how to let the environment sleep for tens of thousands of years. Or even a few hundred million years of genetic fragments? Is it really to roar twice, and in the face of a desperate situation, you can let the sleeping gene fragment unfold in an instant?

The second difficulty lies in the possible absence and breakage of sleeping gene fragments over a long period of life.

In this world, this question was first raised by a snake biologist, and this is indeed a possible thing.

In the distant and unknown years, it is difficult for anyone to know whether the gene fragment has been defected due to some factors, and even under the sudden encounter of strange environment (accidental unknown conditions), the gene has mutated.

But once this happens, then for the entire experimental project of retrospective genes, the difficulty coefficient suddenly doubles, and the number of experiments and troubles increase not once or twice.

Due to the above two major difficulties, the progress of the anti-gene project is particularly slow, which can be described as walking in the quagmire, and the resources and manpower consumed for each small step are quite a huge number.

Of course, this small step is also a great success!

If you use one sentence to summarize the anti-gene plan, it must be "the future is great, the road is bumpy, the investment is great, and the results are very small", if you use the ancient Chinese saying, Qu Yuan's words are extremely suitable here, "The road is long, I will go up and down and seek".

Compared with the anti-gene project, the living body exploration project is fruitful, although sometimes the progress is fast or slow, the results are big or small, but every once in a while, almost there will be some results.

The Living Exploration Project is a large project, which includes a detailed and in-depth exploration of the bodies of various races above the March, as well as the study of the lives of other species, the impact of martial arts on living organisms, and biological modification.

The subtle study of the bodies of each ethnic group has also compiled the genetic map of each ethnic group, and the life cells, tissues, organs, and systems of each ethnic group have been carefully observed.

From the completion of the fertilized egg, the formation of the larvae, the development of the embryo, the birth of the cub, the growth, the adulthood, the aging, and finally the death, the cells in the body will be different at different stages, and even the same kind of cells will show different states and activities at different times.

In addition, not all of the races above March are viviparous, some are oviparous, and some are ovoviviparous, resulting in a wide variety of observed data and a very large scale.

However, such a detailed observation experiment has also achieved remarkable results, at least for various diseases, it has been controlled to a certain extent, and it has also prolonged the life span of the race.

At the same time, the most important thing is that the study of the subtle structure of living organisms provides the accumulation of raw materials for the implantation of nanorobots and the expansion of neural tissue in various ethnic groups in the future.

The study of the life of other species can be divided into two categories: one is to study the characteristics of these species and whether they will have favorable factors for various ethnic groups, such as food, medical treatment, etc.; One can be combined with biomodification.

In the early years, when he was still in the Blue Lotus, Bai Ye used brute beasts and other creatures in the underworld as the basis for transforming many races that only appeared in otherworldly novels.

It's just that when they were transformed, these races were completely beasts, without thinking, and they were accidentally discovered by the wood clan left in the Blue Lotus and activated, becoming a battlefield for biological weapons to fight in the light and dark camps.

Even the Golden Salamander clan had been experimentally transformed by Bai Ye in secret by various means, and unconsciously, they were developing towards the Western Dragon Clan imagined by Bai Ye.

In this era of chaos and ignorance, these species that have been transformed by the white night are also undergoing unpredictable changes.

The influence of martial arts on living organisms has penetrated into the field of tiny cells in the Tang Dynasty, and it has also a tendency to slowly develop towards the micro level in today's March.

The martial arts that Bai Ye handed over to the various ethnic groups are no longer martial arts, but the energy generated by cells, and the body structure of each ethnic group is different, and it is difficult to attribute this kind of thing to internal force.

Each race is different, the intracellular energy conversion is the same and different, and in the beginning, the energy of these cells cannot be expressed except for the human race, and Wu can only be used as a means to activate cells and strengthen the body.

This is also the reason why when the migration and splitting, there were many people of the race who were willing to stay in the Blue Lotus instead of going to March, and most of the people of the race who stayed behind were capable cultivators.

I have to say that this world is more magical than the Condor and the Tang Dynasty, and after some twists and turns in research, each ethnic group also has its own martial arts, and the whimsical ideas in it also make Bai Ye sincerely feel the wonder of wisdom.

In the course of their research, the researchers found that these cellular active energies can be controlled and applied, and are produced by one or more structures within the cell.

They were eager to study the specific mechanism by which energy could be generated from the cells, but they were unable to investigate it due to the limitations of the observation equipment.

This situation is very easy to explain, an ordinary person can see a person, a heart, under a certain magnification of the microscope, can see the cells, and even see the organelles, but with the more subtle the observation, the higher the requirements for the observation equipment.

Due to the lack of technology, the specific structure that produces the active energy of these cells cannot be observed beyond March, how exactly do they complete the conversion between energy?

The significance of the life exploration project is huge, and Bai Ye roughly divides the control of life over the body into the following levels according to the process: cellular level - controllable organelles - protein molecules - atomic level.

Now he has only reached the level of controllable organelles.

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