Chapter 80: Who Did It?
The second generation of Beiyang chicken has come out all over the world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In about the same period of time, the second generation was also born in the breeding base of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences......
"Haitao, have the genetic test results of the Beiyang chicken line come out?"
"Came out, the genetics of the variant traits were very stable, and no heterozygosity and nesting interference were observed."
"No?!" Li Menghua was very surprised.
The second generation of Beiyang chicken actually has complete and stable genetic characteristics, and the second generation perfectly inherits the huge characteristics of Beiyang chicken, and the genes related to the gigantic are perfectly inherited.
This feels very strange.
However, all hybrid, mutated, and mutated species face a common problem, that is, how to stably inherit the variation characteristics between generations.
If any variant trait wants to be stably inherited, it must go through several generations of continuous strengthening and screening before it can gradually stabilize.
And Beiyang chicken has obviously broken through this law, one generation of mutation, the second generation can be stable heredity, this thing is very puzzling, very incomprehensible, very unscientific......
“...... How could there not be? Li Menghua felt as if he had encountered a ghost at this time, which was too unscientific and completely contrary to the genetics of his cognition.
"Originally, I was also very strange, I did several genetic tests, and changed the equipment of different laboratories for testing, and the reproducibility of the results is very good, and the results are undoubted."
"How could it be ......" Li Menghua's gaze lost focus.
"Teacher, why don't you ask other research institutes to see the genetic performance of their Beiyang chickens?" Beiyang chicken breeding poultry is out of control, and there is a lot of loss at home and abroad, and many research institutes have obtained Beiyang chicken, and there are Beiyang chicken projects.
“...... That's good! "It's a little way, Li Menghua immediately agreed.
A few phone calls, a few emails, the progress of the Beiyang chicken project from peers around the world quickly became clear.
The second generation of the Beiyang chicken in each research institute shows strong genetic stability, as if the Beiyang chicken is not a mutated species at all, but a stable species that has been inherited for countless generations.
Originally, Li Menghua's definition of Beiyang chicken was a huge genetic mutant chicken breed suspected of being caused by nuclear leakage.
This point has been widely spread in the academic community, but now after the second generation comes out, it is found that there is a problem, the second generation does not conform to the general law of mutant species!
Why?
Li Menghua felt that his mind was full of fog of war......
When Li Menghua was entangled with the second generation of Beiyang chicken, Mr. Tang's giant chicken farm reopened, but this time his treatment completely changed.
Originally, when Secretary Zhu was secretary, his chicken farm was a high-tech project supported by the city, and various scientific research funds were sent to him.
As a result, he stayed in the detention center for more than half a month, and after he came out again, the situation changed, his chicken farm suddenly became not loved by his grandmother and uncle, and all the yamen no longer cared about him, and many of the policy support and scientific research funds that were supposed to be good were all gone.
Not only is the giant rooster no longer treated, but even Mr. Tang seems to have bad luck on his body, no one wants to see him anywhere, as if he has a plague on him, everyone is afraid that he is not far enough away from him, even if there is really no way, he must meet him, and he must put his stool at the door, and he must be far away from the master's seat.
Later, Mr. Tang also pondered the taste, and all of his feelings regarded him as a nuclear radiation contaminant!
Although there is no evidence of nuclear leakage, it is almost recognized that the giant chicken is because of the product of the nuclear leakage, as long as the Chinese Academy of Sciences does not take off the hat of the giant chicken, no one dares to take the giant chicken as a normal species, even if it is suspected.
The scientific research fund is gone, and the big-bellied characteristics of the giant chicken are vividly expressed, and the second generation is also born, and Mr. Tang once again faces serious feeding pressure.
But fortunately, Mr. Tang has already found a market, and the Food and Drug Administration will not let his giant chicken go on the market, but it is no problem to sell it to scientific research institutes as experimental subjects.
Mr. Tang simply looked for a scientific research institution to sell a live genetic mutation experimental sample of the giant chicken on the spot, although the sales volume was not large and not very stable, but he couldn't stand the high unit price he sold, so the business turned around after coming and going.
At this moment, an incident happened, and at the urging of Kim Jin-so, South Korea applied for and obtained the registration of the ownership of biological species. In other words, from a legal point of view, the Beiyang pheasant has become a species that originated in Korea.
South Korea not only obtained the species registration, but also allowed the Beiyang chicken to quickly obtain a safety quarantine permit, in other words, the Beiyang chicken has been regarded as a normal species and can be eaten and sold in South Korea normally.
The most direct consequence of this change is that Mr. Tang's chicken farm business is booming, and many Korean chicken farms have come to buy breeding chickens and eggs.
The Beiyang chicken is normalized in South Korea, and there are completely different opinions about the origin of the Beiyang chicken, Kim Jin-so.
Kim Jin-so believes that the Beiyang chicken cannot be a gigantic mutation caused by nuclear leakage, because it is inconceivable that the mutation consistency that can stabilize the inheritance can be stably produced in batches.
Even if the Beiyang chicken is the product of a nuclear leak, then the mutation caused by the nuclear leak should be multidirectional, and there should be a large number of different types of mutations at the same time, and the resulting large number of chick deaths.
But no, all the nuclear leakage concurrency that should have occurred did not occur, and even in the end this nuclear leak was not detected, all of which means the same answer - Beiyang chicken is a product of gene editing technology!
This is the only possible way to perfectly explain all these contradictions, and this is the only reasonable explanation, no matter how unbelievable it is, when there is only one possibility, it is the answer!
Kim's views have resonated a lot in academic circles, but they have also attracted more controversy.
Everyone is doing this, who can do it and who can't, even if it can't be predicted completely accurately, but at what level, peers actually know it.
It's not that no one has thought of Kim Jin-so's point of view, but everyone thinks that there is no laboratory with this kind of technical strength, and if this kind of thing happens in five or ten years, it may be the handiwork of a certain laboratory, as for now...... I haven't heard of any laboratory that has reached the level of technology.
Lee Menghua knew Kim Jin-so's point of view, but he could not agree with it. Because it can't be explained, even if Kim Jin-so's point of view is right, who did it? Could it be that aliens did it?
With no evidence of a nuclear leak, Kim Jin-so's views are gaining more acceptance, and the only question now is who did it!