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On the "Ocean 2" space battleship, when the last team dragged back with the broken spaceship, everyone who saw it couldn't help but take a long breath!

The advanced spaceships made by the Empire, the spaceships specially used for scientific investigations, even the technology of small spaceships is very advanced, just as a material for the shell, its hardness has reached the limit of ordinary materials, except for the materials made from the atomic point of view, these materials are the best!

But now, almost every one of the ten small spaceships is wounded!

The spaceship of the 8th squad, which was the least injured, was also bitten off by the space creatures, and as for the 2nd, 6th, and 9th squads, the worst were thankful that they could come back, thanks to the timely rescue of the rescue team, otherwise they would have died in the mouths of the space creatures!

As for their spaceship, it has been bitten by this time, and it is completely useless, and some even have the teeth of space creatures, part of the wreckage, and so on!

"Immediately study the space creatures we have obtained, and we must figure out why these space creatures are so crazy about our spaceship that they are besieged as soon as they enter it!"

"In addition, if we send out a spaceship made of atomic materials, I don't believe it, whether their teeth are powerful, or our atomic materials are powerful, we must catch some live space creatures back!"

Liu Yanze was also relieved when he saw that there were people who were in danger, and gave two orders in succession!

In the biological research center on the "Ocean 2", Liu Yanze put on protective clothing and began to participate in the research of space creatures, you must know that Liu Yanze is a young scientist in the dual fields of biology and cosmic astronomy!

"Yan Ze, come and take a look, their genes are really weird!"

Seeing Liu Yanze coming, He Jinghao, another young scientist from the Institute of Biology, immediately asked Liu Yanze to come over, because he had encountered a problem that he had never encountered in biology!

"What's wrong?" Liu Yanze heard He Jinghao's words and went over immediately!

"Look, this is the genogram we dissected and intercepted from the samples of space creatures obtained here, take a closer look!"

He Jinghao pointed to a huge computer reality machine and said, a thing similar to a genetic map on the display screen is constantly being improved, it is obvious that scientists are drawing the genes of space creatures here!

The essence and everything of living things are actually determined by genes, so the study of biology is more often the study of biological genes, as long as all the genes in the organism are clarified, then it can be said that this kind of biology has been thoroughly studied!

Hearing He Jinghao's words, Liu Yanze began to take a closer look at the genetic map, He Jinghao, as an outstanding biological research scientist like himself, his words are naturally not untargeted!

"Oh my God! How can it be? Silicon-based life? ”

Soon, Liu Yanze let out a burst of exclamations, and the whole person looked unbelievable!

The concept of silicon-based life appeared as early as the 19th century, and in 1891, Julio Shennar, an astrophysicist at the University of Potsdam, explored the possibility of silicon-based life in an article, and he was probably the first person to mention silicon-based life. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This concept was embraced by the British chemist James Merson Reynolds, who in 1893 pointed out in a lecture at the British Association for the Advancement of Science that the thermal stability of silicon compounds allowed life based on them to survive in more complex environments.

Although the concept of silicon-based life was proposed very early, and scientists have been working to find such life, the possibility of silicon-based life is threatened by many flaws.

When carbon is oxidized during the respiration of organisms on Earth, carbon dioxide gas is formed, which is a waste material that can be easily removed from living organisms. However, the oxidation of silicon forms solids, because when silicon dioxide is first formed, a crystal lattice is formed, so that each silicon atom is surrounded by four oxygen atoms, rather than each molecule is separate as in carbon dioxide, and the disposal of such a solid substance will pose a great challenge to the respiration process of silicon-based life.

However, some have questioned whether the "Creator" could "innovate" the way such biological systems harvest their energy when they were created!

This organism simultaneously "eats" two substances needed to produce energy and stores them separately in the body, which can not be gases at all.

After the waste products are produced as silicon compounds, it is possible to form an internal circulatory system with "blood" composed of phosphoric acid and blood vessels with particularly stable chemical properties, although this circulatory system is not silicon-based.

In this way, it seems that life without a respiratory system is possible and feasible for carbon-based life, but it is clear that this form is obviously inefficient, because carbon-based life has chosen to breathe in order to adapt to the nature of the earth.

It has been suggested that silicon may not be able to produce as many left-handed and right-handed compounds as carbon does, and that as long as it is a life form, it must collect, store, and utilize energy from the outside environment.

In carbon-based organisms, the most basic compound that stores energy is carbohydrates. In carbohydrates, carbon atoms are linked into a chain by single bonds, and a series of oxidation steps controlled by enzymes release energy, and waste products produce water and carbon dioxide.

These enzymes are large and complex molecules, they catalyze specific reactions according to the shape of the molecule and left-handed and right-handed, and the left-handed and right-handed molecules are left or right due to the asymmetry of the carbon contained in the molecule, and most substances in carbon-based organisms show this characteristic, and it is this characteristic that enables enzymes to identify and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms.

However, the failure of silicon to produce as many left-handed and right-handed compounds as carbon does, makes it difficult to be a supporting element for the large number of interconnected chain reactions required for life. That is, it cannot identify and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms and release stored energy in the same way that carbon-based life does.

In addition, the scientists of the Imperial Biological Research have been searching for silicon-based life for a long time, and the Empire is currently in the star fields where species flourish such as the Source of Floodlight and the Source of Stars, and even among the previously obtained space life!

So scientists have decided that silicon-based life should not exist, because theory and practice have so far proved that these life forms are impossible.

But when the facts were in front of him, Liu Yanze was taken aback, and at the same time, the whole person became extremely excited, the traditional silicon-based life has seen too much, I didn't expect to see the legendary silicon-based life, as a scientist in biological research, this is tantamount to a great news!

"I couldn't believe it at first, but that's exactly what happened, and if you look at their genetic makeup, you'll be even more surprised!"

He Jinghao was not surprised at all about Liu Yanze's realization, because all biological scientists were surprised when they knew this, including himself, and it was hard to believe it at first!

"Triple helix structure? Oh my God, how can this be, and looking at the structure diagram, it is a triple helix structure composed of two carbon bases and one silicon base! ”

Liu Yanze continued to look at it and was surprised again!

The traditional genetic composition is all the structure of the double helix, which has been recognized by countless scientists as an irreversible iron law, but today once again breaks the scientific understanding of life, science is really subverted and subverted, and the universe is really wonderful!

"Unbelievable! The universe is truly full of wonders! ”

Liu Yanze muttered to himself, everything in front of him was really out of his own cognition, and in an instant he felt that what he knew and knew was a drop in the ocean, and there were still too many, too many secrets in the universe waiting for him to explore!

"We have studied the space creatures of multiple star systems obtained, and all the space creatures are genetically this silicon-based, carbon-based mixed triple helix gene!"

"The silicon-based genes give these creatures the ability to survive and thrive in space, and they can directly obtain energy from the light of the stars through these skin-like things on the surface!"

"At the same time, the silicon-based genes also give them the ability to devour metal, and use metal to strengthen the energy of their bodies, which is why as soon as our spacecraft enters the star, it will be attacked by these space creatures madly!"

"Because this is determined by their genes, silicon-based genes make them crazy to devour metal substances, because this can strengthen their bones, teeth, muscles, etc., so that they have a stronger competitiveness and can better pass on their genes!"

"You must know that in ordinary space, metals are only available on asteroids, planets, and meteorites, so they will keep drilling into these celestial bodies, swallowing a large amount of things containing metals, and then refining these metals through chemical processes in the body!"

"But in this case, it will digest their energy very much, and it will take a long time, and our spaceships are all made of metal, and they are refined, so they will be crazy to devour these fine metals!"

"It's like our human pursuit of food!"

"The other two genetic helices that are the same as ordinary carbon-based life give them biological characteristics, which can reproduce normally, and have the characteristics of all living things!"

He Jinghao explained to Liu Yanze while facing the genes on the big screen, and told the reason why the spacecraft received a crazy attack from space creatures!

"I see, I said why our ship was attacked in a frenzy as soon as it entered it! The metal materials on our spacecraft are a very precious necessity for these space creatures! ”

"In this way, they are a hybrid of silicon-based and carbon-based life, but how did their genes evolve?"

Liu Yanze nodded, and then began to study the evolutionary origin of these space creatures!

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