cosmic hegemony

Chapter 503, Gene Evolution

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Yan Jia was sweating profusely, and there were beads of sweat on her beautiful face. She was very tired at the moment, but she was also very excited. She could see the scene just now clearly. Her understanding of life, Regarding the understanding of genes, many things that had puzzled me all the time disappeared, but at the same time, more and more doubts emerged.

"It would have been fine just a little bit longer."

Yan Jia was a little annoyed that she couldn't hold on any longer. It was a little bit reluctant to stimulate the heart of life with the cultivation base of Yuanzhu level, and she couldn't hold on for too long. The heart of life was like a bottomless abyss that absorbed her life force.

"Yan Jia, are you okay?"

Sun Xinyuan came up to help her up and asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's just that the energy is exhausted, just need to cultivate for a while, thank you."

Yan Jia smiled and shook her head.

Because Yan Jia's Yuanli was exhausted, the empire could not find a second Yuanli Practitioner who had cultivated Life Yuanli to the Yuanzhu level. There were some Yuanshi-level Yuanli practitioners, but practitioners of this level were not at all. There is no way to mobilize the heart of life, and the energy consumed by mobilizing the heart of life is too huge, even the master level of the primordial master seems reluctant, and only the immortal level can be used with ease.

Although it is not possible to continue to stimulate the heart of life to demonstrate the mysteries of life for the time being, the scientists of the empire have also gained a lot this time. The scientists of the empire who watched this scene in person have gained great inspiration, and their understanding of life There has been a leap forward in development.

At the Imperial Institute of Biological Sciences, a large group of leading figures in the field of biological sciences in the Empire are discussing something intensely. Although Yan Jia has not fully recovered, there is no problem at all in attending some academic conferences and the like. As Li Fu Taishan, the originator of the empire's biological science research field, naturally cannot be absent, not to mention the last time, after witnessing a miraculous scene, Li Fu also gained a lot of inspiration and wanted to communicate with other scientists.

"In the past, we thought that the YX003 gene segment belonged to the gene segment of division and reproduction, but now it seems that we are completely wrong. It should actually be attributed to the regrowth gene sequence, which can explain why we have been carrying out genetic recombination. There will be problems with the reproduction of new species."

A scientist is expressing his views on the virtual image at this time, and the image of a gene fragment in the virtual image is enlarged and played.

The research direction of the Empire's biotechnology has been developed to the present. In fact, the most concerned research direction is gene research, because genes are the foundation of living things, and gene research can be subdivided into many directions, such as gene recombination, gene mutagenesis, gene programming, etc. , it is obvious that the scientist on stage specializes in genetic recombination.

The world of genes is like a vast and boundless universe. All kinds of genes form completely different species through complex combinations. However, although the types of organisms are very large and vast, in the final analysis, everything is still genes. determined.

For example, organisms are used to reproduce, although the way each organism reproduces is completely different, like plants use seeds to reproduce, use cell division to reproduce, birds, fish, etc. use the way of laying eggs to reproduce, mammals The mode of reproduction is completely different from that of plants, birds and beasts.

But in essence, the gene fragments used by organisms for reproduction are all the same. They all evolve from the most basic initial reproduction gene fragments, and eventually evolve into various reproduction gene fragments such as one, two, three, and four.

Another example is to obtain energy from the outside world. The way plants obtain energy is relatively simple and direct. Plants rely on roots to obtain nutrients from the soil, and rely on leaves to receive sunlight for photosynthesis; animals basically rely on eating plants or other Animals and plankton to obtain energy and nutrients for survival.

Although these two methods are very different, they are essentially two gene fragments evolved from eating gene fragments. We all know that there are also carnivorous plants in plants, such as piranhas and piranhas. Plants are also very common in the interstellar universe, and animals themselves also retain some genes that directly obtain the nutrients they need from nature. For example, animals generally need to eat salt, such as cold-blooded animals such as snakes and crocodiles need to bask in the sun. Raise your body temperature and so on.

Scientists of the Empire classify and summarize various genes through the study of genes, such as dividing genes into reproduction genes, eating genes, immune genes, perception genes, etc. There are many types, and each type of gene The following can be subdivided into many subcategories of genes.

Of course, there are many ways to classify genes, and now there is a relatively new classification method, high-level genes and low-level genes. This classification is the key point of distinguishing high-level organisms from low-level organisms. Scientists believe that the reason why high-level organisms are high-level organisms, That's because among the various gene fragments, the genes of advanced organisms are all primitive genes that have evolved to a relatively advanced stage, and have a large number of advanced genes.

In addition to low-level genes and high-level genes, the scientists of the empire believe that there are two more advanced genes, the wisdom gene and the god gene. The wisdom gene is naturally well understood. The scientists of the empire study the countless civilizations in the galaxy. Although the races are completely different in shape and so on, the difference in wisdom is not too big. Without wisdom, it is naturally impossible to create civilization.

The reason why humans are different from animals is that humans possess wisdom. Scientists believe that the ancestors of humans evolved wisdom genes unintentionally, so humans can continue to prosper.

Scientists and scholars in the field of humanities in the empire study the development history of various civilizations in the Milky Way. Basically, scientists of every civilization have conducted in-depth research on the origin of their own civilizations. Almost all civilizations believe that they can have Unlike beasts that can create civilizations, almost everyone thinks that there are wisdom genes in their genes.

As for the god gene, this is the result of an inference made by imperial scientists on Yuanli and Yuanli practitioners. Advanced Yuanli practitioners have the terrifying ability to destroy the world and traverse the void of the universe, but those who do not practice Yuanli There is no difference between ordinary people and ants, and the scientists of the empire believe that the reason for this huge gap is the existence of the god gene.

Through the cultivation of Yuanli, under the nourishment and cultivation of Yuanli, some low-level genes in the human body will evolve, and slowly evolve the god genes, thus possessing all kinds of incredible powerful abilities.

For example, Yuanli practitioners have a very long lifespan, while ordinary people only have a lifespan of less than a hundred years. After research, scientists have decided that all this is actually cell division. The number of cell divisions is limited. When the cell division reaches the limit, human It will naturally age and die.

The gene that determines cell division is naturally also a gene. This gene is called a lifespan gene. Low-level lifespan genes lead to fewer cell divisions and a shorter cell lifespan. That's why there are summer bugs. Most of the bugs are After less than a year, relatively advanced longevity genes can allow cells to divide more times, and the life span of cells is longer, so most advanced animals have a longer life span.

The lifespan gene is nourished by the power, so that the lifespan gene evolves and becomes a god gene. The number of cell divisions can increase infinitely, and the lifespan of the cell itself can also be continuously extended.

The original cell may only have a lifespan of 10 days, and can only divide a million times, but after evolving to the stage of the god gene, it has a lifespan of 100 or 1000 years, and can divide tens of millions or billions of times. Nature is endless.

Low-level genes, high-level genes, wisdom genes, god genes, the four stages of gene evolution, are also the four stages of biological evolution. Of course, it is only the current understanding of biology and genes by imperial scientists.

Low-level genes can slowly evolve toward higher-level genes under the urging of external or internal conditions. Of course, this evolutionary process must be very, very slow, and the time required is calculated in billions of years. In this process, there will definitely be countless variations, and eventually the fittest will survive slowly, the winners will eliminate the losers, and the excellent genes will be passed on from generation to generation.

This point has been most fully reflected in the evolutionary history of humans on Earth. Scientists have studied the evolutionary history of humans and found that at a certain stage, about 250 million years ago, multiple races existed on the earth at the same time. Mrs. Rudo, Homo erectus in East Asia, Neanderthals in West Asia, etc.

The races mentioned here are fundamentally different from those of the yellow race, blacks, and whites. The races mentioned above have already had species reproductive isolation, and they cannot reproduce with each other.

But by about 2 years ago, there was only one race left on the earth, that is, Homo sapiens, which is now commonly known as the ancestor of human beings, and the reason why Homo sapiens can stand out among the many races is that In fact, it relies on the wisdom genes evolved by Homo sapiens. Although other races have many similarities with humans, they have not evolved wisdom genes, and there is still no essential difference from beasts and so on.

Under the fierce competition and natural elimination, the intelligent Homo sapiens finally defeated other races, adapted to nature better, and finally ruled the earth!

(End of this chapter)