Chapter 18: The Split (Page 1/1)

"Reproduction?" Thor was carrying a hammer, and there seemed to be a lot of question marks floating on his head.

"That's right."

Leon nodded and said casually: "In the mythological story, in the armpit of the original frost giant Ymir, the male frost giant Mimir and the female frost giant Bestra popped up.

Regardless of whether Bestra was taken captive by Bauer or was genuinely in love with Bauer, the two eventually gave birth to three Aesir gods, including Odin, which means that Bestra is your own grandmother.

If you don't believe me, you can check it out in your family tree. ”

Thor was silent, from childhood to adulthood, whether it was Father Odin or the queen of heaven, he rarely told Thor about the history of the previous generation, even if he asked the elders in the divine domain, most of them were silent.

The adults' little mention of that period of history, as well as Thor's own upright, simple or tendonous character, made him completely uninterested in the history of the Nine Kingdoms in the early period (which is why in the "Thor 3" movie, Thor didn't even know that he had a sister named 'Hela').

It is possible that even Odin himself is disgusted by the frost giant factor in his own bloodline. In addition, it would be too bad to let the Asgard warriors know that the Frost Giant soldiers they slaughtered were in fact blood relatives eons ago.

Thinking of this joint, Thor couldn't help but nodded, frowned at Leon and said, "Well, even if Bestra is really my grandmother, what does it mean?"

The Asgardians, and the frost giants of Jotunheim, are now two species entirely. ”

"Oh? Is that really the case? ”

Leon sneered and said, "In taxonomy, species refers to a group of individuals who can mate and reproduce, and the hybrids produced by mating with other organisms cannot reproduce again.

This means that the division between species is based on reproductive isolation.

If the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and the Asir of Asgard are no longer two species, then a hybrid like yours is likely to suffer from infertility. ”

“.... What the?! ”

Thor was stunned and frightened and took a small half step back - for the vast majority of men, losing the ability to have children is absolutely unbearable.

Captain America and Tony Stark on the side have been standing on the side just now, listening to the secrets of Norse mythology - Stark is a top student after all, even if he is studying electrical engineering, he still understands the myths of literary and artistic genres, while the American team from Brooklyn (slum) is not, it is completely the same as listening to heavenly books.

However, they could both understand the word "infertility", and for a moment they cast sympathetic glances at Thor.

Instead of thanking his teammates for their sympathy, Thor said in shame, "Can a god be like a mortal being?" God is God, with qualities beyond the imagination of most mortal beings.

In addition, from energy and metal smelting, to agriculture and medical care, Asgard has technological capabilities far ahead of the earth.

We also have state-of-the-art medical equipment that can effectively treat all kinds of diseases that cannot be treated on earth – and those instruments do not show that I am in danger of infertility. ”

"Are you sure?"

Li Ang pursed his lips, did not continue to dwell on this issue, and said directly: "On the surface, the frost giant is indeed divided into men and women, but after I explored the physiological structure of Rogie, I found some abnormalities.

In mythology, the Frost Giant was born from under Ymir's armpit - this religious description is not true, so what is the most likely explanation for the mysterious reproductive method of the Frost Giant? ”

He paused, glancing at the Avengers.

“... Mitosis? Tony Stark hesitated.

"That's right." Leon snapped his fingers with a smile and said, "The answer is mitosis." The Frost Giant may seem like an ordinary species, but the eukaryotic cells that make up the life of an individual will have spindles and chromosomes during the division process, so that the daughter chromosomes that have been replicated during the DNA synthesis phase are evenly distributed to the daughter cells. ”

Captain America and Thor were still at a loss, but Stark reacted first, and the MIT graduate subconsciously said: "Wait, the frost giant's mitotic type, is it an animal or a plant?" ”

"Animals." Leon smiled even more happily and explained: "Mitosis in animal and plant cells is very different, and in animal cells there are centrosomes. During the division process, the two centrioles in the center body each produce a new centriole, which is two new sets of centrioles.

During division, the two groups of neutrophils move towards the poles of the cell and emit numerous rays of radiation, forming a spindle. At the end of cell division, instead of forming a cell plate in the middle of the cell, the cell membrane is concave to the center, cracking the cell.

In this whole process, the chromosomes of the parent cells are precisely assigned to the two daughter cells after replication. Because chromosomes contain the genetic material DNA, a string of sexual characteristics is stable between parents and offspring.

It manifests itself at the macroscopic level of the Frost Giant's entire individual life, which is the birth of a tumor cyst from the armpit and the birth of a new baby in the tumor. ”

Leon's narration is calm and quiet, but the scene he describes is so terrifying that it makes the Avengers members have unacceptable expressions on their faces.

"No, but the frost giants do have a husband and wife relationship."

Thor, the god of thunder, seemed to grasp some life-saving straw, and hurriedly shouted: "I know this, Loki's father is the king of the frost giants of Jordan Heim, Laufey.

He's my father's nemesis, and he's led the Frost Giants in their protracted struggle against Asgard, and I saw him last time! ”

"Heh, Thor, you're still too young, you're thinking too simply, and you've overlooked a crucial issue."

Leon smiled: "If the original frost giant Ymir was able to give birth to two frost giants, a man and a woman, through mitosis, then it also means that each frost giant contains the same genetic DNA as Ymir, which means that all frost giants are potential bisexual creatures." ”

"What?"

Thor only felt that his worldview collapsed instantly, and the gaze that looked at Loki instantly became strange.

My brother, is he intersexual?

Tony Stark on the side hesitated for a moment, and said quietly: "In the process of embryonic differentiation, in the first few weeks of development, there is no difference in the anatomy of the ** official.

Until the sixth week of pregnancy, primitive gonads with bidirectional glandular drive appear, and the primitive gonads of this period can develop into both eggs and ovaries.

In the seventh week, the H-Y antigen gene on the male Y chromosome causes the H-Y antigen on the membrane surface of germ cells and gonadal crest cells, causing the gonadal cord to grow into seminiferous tubules, the mesenchyme into egg interstitial cells and the buffy membrane, and the primitive germ cells to differentiate into sperm cells.

Conversely, in women without the H-Y antigen gene, the gonadal cord becomes the primitive follicle, the mesenchyme becomes the ovarian flesh, and the primitive germ cell grows into ooblast. ”

Speaking of this, Iron Man paused, looked at Li Ang, and said hesitantly: "The frost giant can reproduce through mitosis and also through the relationship between the sexes, this is the first time I have heard of such a strange and diverse way of reproduction. ”

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