Chapter 57 Gene Technology

This nebula is simply a blessed land for the fleet, and since entering the nebula, there has been a steady stream of good news and good news. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info not only discovered two living planets, found a large number of purple spirit trees and various precious animal and plant resources, but also discovered a large number of precious metals, unlocked antimatter technology, and found a precious pair of the fleet. Because of this, Mercury has expanded its capacity, and the living environment of human beings has become more safe and reliable. At the same time, another surprising news came out. The Academy of Biological Sciences, led by Lu Yingying, has completed the interpretation of the fourth-level gene technology of the green-skinned people. This means that mankind has truly entered the age of genes.

Genetic technology has only made initial progress during the Earth period. In 1953, American scientist Watson and British scientist Crick discovered the double helix structure of genes, and since then human beings have truly entered the door of the genetic age. Scientists have high hopes for gene technology, believing that the 20th century will be the century of monocrystalline silicon and the 21st century will be the century of biological science. However, many years have passed in the 21st century, gene technology is still in the laboratory research and development stage, and mature products have hardly been applied except for some genetic engineering drugs and genetically modified plants.

The technology of the green-skinned people is based on gene technology. The fleet also has a strong dependence on the technology of the Greenskins. For example, energy trees, gold-swallowing vines, building plants, and so on. However, this is only a rigid use of green-skinned technology, and it is not possible to understand and master it at all. Like, How does the gold-swallowing vine work? How do energy trees convert energy, and why do building plants have so much plasticity and grow so fast? How are these plants transformed? ……

Human beings know nothing about this, and can only practice the doctrine of taking, knowing what it is, and not knowing why it is used. Moreover, many of the technologies of the green-skinned people are not suitable for humans. For example, the battleship technology of the Greenskins. The greenskin's warships grow. In principle, it is much more convenient than humans building warships by building blocks. Just find a desolate planet, sow the seeds, and after a while, just drive the battleship away, and there is no need for mining, shaping, and assembly. But humans and greenskins are not even the same race, and they are not creatures at all. For the greenskin ships it is not usable at all. The greenskins control warships through various pheromones, but humans can't even figure out how many pheromones there are in plants, so how to use plant warships? There are other technologies that do the same.

Lu Yingying's Academy of Biological Sciences' main work is to analyze the technology of the green-skinned people into genetic technology that human beings can understand and apply, and has achieved initial success, and the science and technology of the fourth-level civilization have been completely analyzed, which is a huge achievement and a milestone. Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as it can succeed this time, it means that you can continue to follow this model in the future, and Xiao Gui Cao can follow it. The biggest difficulty in scientific research is to make breakthroughs, and even a small step of innovation is more meaningful than the major success of later generations, because he has opened up a new field.

Gene technology must first create model organisms, and each segment of the gene, each enzyme cleavage site, the active center of each enzyme, and even the specific role of each life molecule in the life process of the model organism must be completely understood, and only in this way can the next step of research be carried out. After that, according to the different needs of the product, it is enough to add the corresponding genes to the model species so that they can be expressed in the plant. After the gene is expressed, the model organism will want to grow in different directions, and finally grow into different products. Lu Yingying: They have developed two model organisms – ivy and sycamore.

Ivy is a vine plant, fast growing, easy to shape, transformed ivy can grow into plants of different thickness and hardness according to requirements. The gene fragments of the shaping tables, chairs and benches are introduced into the pattern ivy, and the vines will continue to bend, wind, and shape in the process of growth, and after the leaves fall off, different styles of tables, chairs and benches will be formed, with low cell water content, and a layer of hard waxy material secreted on the surface, making the surface hard and smooth, just like the best craftsmen processed.

Add elements to the vine to form the gene fragment of the hovercar, and the vine will eventually grow into the shape of the hovercar, and grow a small crystal engine and controller inside, and will generate a bio-computer next to the driver's seat, and after maturity, it will be a bio-hovercar, as long as the bio-crystal is added, it will drive freely like a normal hovercar.

The French plane tree has a hollow interior, a hard skin, and thick branches, and the model organisms modified from the French plane tree are mainly used to produce various types of plant warships. Of course, limited to the current level, the level of the battleship can only be made to the level of four. Sow the seeds of model organisms on barren planets or even asteroids, and within a week, a large number of mature plant battleships will grow. The mature plant battleship has a cylindrical shape, the shell is a metallic skin, and the interior is divided into various compartments, and the power part is located at the root of the battleship, which is also the propulsion part of the battleship.

There are very few branches of the battleship, and the branches that grow out are very short, and these branches that stick out are all the barrels of energy cannons, and only the aerospace aircraft carrier will grow huge branches, which are mainly hangars for air and space fighters. The plant battleship has a huge advantage, Lu Yingying and they refer to the genes of the energy tree and add the gene fragment of the transformation energy crystal to the plant battleship, so the plant battleship has the ability to transform energy crystals. When the battleship is short of energy, as long as the battleship is driven near the star, the plant battleship will automatically convert solar energy into energy crystals and store it.

Plant battleships also have a self-healing function, as long as the main body of the battleship exists, the plant battleship can consume a lot of energy and minerals to regrow into a full state in a short period of time. However, due to the current low level of technology, it can only transform energy crystals below grade B, and the conversion efficiency is relatively low, and the repair time is relatively long. Even so, the sustained combat and endurance of the plant battleship is much better than that of ordinary warships.

As soon as the plant battleship technology was analyzed, it was highly valued by Chen Peilin, and he hurriedly produced a batch of them to test the combat effectiveness, but the result was not very ideal, after all, it was only a fourth-level battleship, and the combat effectiveness was simply a scum, even if it was an ordinary expedition ship, the firepower was much stronger than it. However, although it is not good as a warship, it is still a pretty good choice as a civilian aircraft. Moreover, the military council has also found value in biological warfare ships, that is, to create a cosmic version of the "kamikaze". A large number of plant-growing fighters, carrying high-explosive bombs to launch a decisive charge against the enemy's fleet in wartime, anyway, this kind of fighter is very cheap, if necessary, any space carrier can produce tens of millions of planes a week, and when the time comes, in the face of these fearless fighters, any enemy will fall into panic and despair.

Genetic technology is not only used in the military, but also in civilian use. Crops improved through genetic technology can grow faster, be more nutritious, and produce higher yields. For example, when rice is improved, the stalks become thick and tall, and when they are ripe, they are not just an ear of rice, but a cherry hanging from the branches. When ripe, the ears of rice fall off automatically. The straw does not wither, but continues to grow rice, the rice growth cycle is only one week, and the rice shell is like a pod, and it will automatically explode after being collected and slightly dried, so there is no need to molt so troublesomely.

Gene technology also has a significant role in human health, through gene repair agents, can remove free radicals in the body, make the body younger, inhibit telomere shortening, increase human lifespan, after the start of mass production, only need ten contribution points to buy a bottle of gene repair agents, this contribution point is just a day of consumption of ordinary people. Demographic societies have entered the era of longevity. In the past, only a few people could afford to use the gene repair warehouse, after all, the cost was too high.

Genetic technology has comprehensively changed the clothing, food, housing and transportation of human society, and it will not be long before people use grown furniture, drive grown hovercars, and travel to drive private plant spaceships, all of which seem to be developing in a beautiful direction. But humans can't live in a corner, Nebula is not a peach blossom paradise where humans can escape from the world, the threat of slave hunters is still there, the road ahead is still long, and the front of the fleet is still full of unknowns......