Chapter 102, Genetic Engineering

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Chen Shuiwa quietly looked at the things inside the glass!

The space inside the glass is the size of a basketball court, and the environment inside is completely simulated the ecological environment of the Loess Plateau, and even the soil is directly transported from the Loess Plateau.

From above, it looks like a miniature version of the hometown.

Shui Wa's eyes are a little red and swollen, and her face is full of tiredness, and anyone who stays up late every day for several months will not be able to bear it, working nearly 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Fortunately, he has cultivated the Yuan Force, so he can resist it, even if he is tired, as long as he cultivates for so many hours, the whole person can be fierce again.

After months of hard work in vain, Shui Wa knew little about biology from the beginning, and in just a few months, he was already one of the most powerful researchers in the entire biological research institute.

On the one hand, the water baby herself took out the unique stubborn temper of children on the Loess Plateau, and the persistence of not giving up until the goal was achieved.

On the other hand, it is also thanks to the special cultivation method taught by Liu Qingquan, the method for researchers to practice, which has a magical effect on the development of the brain, and forgetting it is only the simplest effect.

Otherwise, how could these researchers of Qingquan Technology be comparable to those researchers of decades in just a few months, everything depends on the benefits brought by the cultivation of Yuan Li, and their health is good and their brains are even better.

Shuiwa knows that if you want to put on a new green coat for the Loess Plateau, you must find a place that can grow quickly, the roots must be deep and luxuriant, and the requirements for water cannot be too high, so as to be able to grow and shape quickly in the environment of the Loess Plateau, and lock the rain and soil of the Loess Plateau.

In order to find such plants, Shui Wa applied to Liu Qingquan for a team of 100 people, who drove flying cars all over the world to find various plants and conduct comprehensive comparisons.

Thanks to the convenience of flying cars, any desired plant can be quickly transported to the Biological Research Institute of Qingquan Technology and transported to the hands of these researchers.

Plants from arid regions around the world, such as camel grass, poplar, cactus, sand holly, rhino horn, sand canopy dates, white thorn, sea buckthorn, sand dates, date palms, desert roses, desert chrysanthemums, baobabs, etc., come from arid regions all over the world.

These plants are characterized by very good drought resistance, well-developed root systems, very strong water absorption and storage capacity, and many of them have very good economic value.

Of course, there are all kinds of fast-growing plants from tropical and subtropical regions, such as water hyacinth, various bamboos, thistles, clematis, coconut palms, succulents, etc., which are characterized by high water and heat requirements, but very fast production.

Of course, the water baby obviously does not simply want to put on a new green dress for the Loess Plateau, for the poverty of his hometown, he also keeps in mind, and does not forget to look for economic value when looking for various plants, all kinds of jujube plants are not good, and they can't produce much economic value.

The water baby is interested in those plants that can produce greater economic value, such as rubber trees, the price of natural rubber in the world has always been high, the economic value is very large, as well as oil tung trees, oil palms, oil melons, diesel trees, olive, energy grass, jatropha and other new bioenergy plants.

Of course, each plant has its own unique geographical environment, and you can't plant tropical plants directly in the cold zone, and you can't plant a lot of plants that need to absorb water in arid desert areas.

The reason why Shuiwa wants to collect a large number of plants is to obtain the genetic data of these plants, build a huge gene pool, and then obtain a plant she wants through genetic engineering technology, that is, transgenic technology.

Genetic engineering, also known as gene splicing technology and DNA recombination technology, is based on molecular genetics as the theoretical basis, with the modern methods of molecular biology and microbiology as a means, the genes of different sources according to the pre-designed blueprint, in vitro to construct hybrid DNA molecules, and then introduce into living cells to change the original genetic characteristics of organisms, obtain new varieties, and produce new products, genetic engineering technology provides a powerful means for the study of gene structure and function.

Maybe many people will panic when they hear about genetically modified technology, it sounds like God created it, find some genes to create a new species at will, maybe make another intelligent species, replace human beings, the panic in the heart can be imagined.

In addition, over the years, the society, the media, etc. have made various reports on the safety of genetically modified food, many times there is no scientific basis, and food security is a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

But in fact, transgenic technology is not so magical, the recombination of genes is not arbitrary, a variety of completely unrelated species genes, if forced to carry out random combinations, the result must be gene collapse, without any effect and result, this phenomenon is especially obvious in higher organisms, I don't see just cloned animals can't live long! Not to mention genetically recombinant organisms.

As for genetically modified food, this is a very serious topic! (The author himself expressed that he was not at ease and never dared to eat genetically modified corn, small tomatoes, etc.)

As the world's number one grain exporter, the United States has applied genetically modified technology to basically every crop, such as corn, soybeans, peanuts, and so on.

For example, our country imports a large amount of soybeans and corn to the United States every year, and the price of imported grain is cheaper than your local production even if it is shipped to consumers, on the one hand, thanks to their advanced genetically modified technology, and on the other hand, the United States subsidizes its own agricultural exports highly.

Of course, the Americans have bad intentions, low prices have hit your local grain production enterprises, so that there is no market for the native crops, and when everyone habitually depends on their food, the tongue will be stuck, and it is the meat on the cutting board of others.

Like the original soybeans in the Northeast, once the main producer of soybean oil in the world, relying on this can bring considerable foreign exchange to the world every year, and can also bring good economic income to the farmers who plant, but then the United States relied on genetically modified soybeans to enter the international and domestic markets at low prices, and the soybeans in the Northeast were instantly washed away, so that now, the soybeans that the Chinese people need are basically dependent on imports, because there is no market for the soybeans you produce yourself, and you will lose a lot of planting and loss.

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The most prominent advantage of transgenic technology is that it breaks the boundaries of species that are difficult to break through in conventional breeding, and can recombine and transfer genetic information between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, between animals and plants, and even between humans and other organisms. Human genes can be transferred to E. coli for expression, and bacterial genes can be transferred to plants for expression.

The water baby is interested in this, and will want to achieve its own goals through transgenic technology, and only transgenic technology can study the ideal plant of the water baby.

Of course, there are countless countries and enterprises in the world that study desert governance, and the study of genetically modified technology is the main topic in the biological community, but now the main focus is on food and medical treatment, and the research on the use of genetically modified technology to desert management is still relatively unpopular.

And the research of transgenic technology is not as easy as imagined, not to mention the genetic collapse, allogeneic rejection, and DNA confusion that exist in the key of gene transfer and recombination, even if you successfully recombine a plant or animal, these new animals and plants still need to go through a long period of growth, observation, and experimentation, and by the way, they are all calculated in years, otherwise you don't know what you have made, and what characteristics and functions they have.

The water baby who is eager to change his hometown naturally can't study according to the old-fashioned methods and ideas, and may not be able to successfully study his ideal plant in his life.

After the almighty Liu Qingquan was stalked by the water baby, he had no choice but to take out two things from his treasure chest-seed space, the primary gene decoder and the genetic recombination evolution instrument.

The primary gene decoder is a specially developed instrument for biological research in the early stage of the development of Alpha civilization, which can decode the genes of lower plant organisms and interpret the information carried by each DNA in plants, which can greatly reduce the time of biological research.

When other people are still slowly studying the genes one by one, to explore the characteristics and functions of this gene, it only takes a few minutes for the gene decoder to completely explain all the genes of this plant, what this gene is used for reproduction, which gene is used to resist drought, cold, etc., clearly!

The genetic recombination evolutionary instrument is even more powerful, the researchers will introduce their recombinant genes into the evolutionary instrument, and the evolutionary instrument can completely evolve the various conditions of the gene in the future, whether it can withstand cold and drought, whether it can reproduce the next generation, what kind of environment is needed for growth, and so on.

There is no need for you to wait slowly for the plant to grow and then test it one by one, which takes a lot of time and effort from scientists.

Of course, the gene decoder and the genetic recombinant evolution instrument actually rely on a huge gene and biological database to achieve their magical functions, and the key is the biological database!

Why do the countries on the earth want to work together to build a human genome project, in fact, it is to obtain huge genetic data, establish a genetic database, and lay the foundation for future research. (To be continued.) )