The pace of the times never stops.

Brian and others visited the Tiangong Space Station for a week, and during this period they visited the Space Farm Laboratory, the Cosmic Observatory, etc.

As tourists continue to edit the space station's travel experience, editing it into a blog post and posting it on the Time Blog, the popularity of space tourism has also increased a lot.

Although space is still an area outside of life for ordinary people, this situation is changing little by little.

On the other side.

Australia, deep in the Victoria Desert.

A special guest was welcomed in the base where I had been studying the Florus fungi.

Huang Xiuyuan's substitute robot stood outside the laboratory and stared inside through the glass window.

On the side is Li Mingyu, a senior researcher of the research team. He said with an excited look: "Academician Huang, we have found the key gene fragments of the Florus fungus, you see..."

Li Mingyu called out what they found on the computer, which contained 36,000 gene fragments that the Florus fungi had confirmed.

Of course, this does not mean that the Florus fungi has only 36,000 gene fragments, but the number of its gene fragments is about 36,000.

Each gene fragment has a variety of types, especially 23,000 gene fragments that are prone to high-speed mutations, representing the infinite possibilities of Fluorosis fungi.

But every organism that can be called a species has one thing in common, that is, they have a gene basic plate, that is, relatively stable gene fragments exist.

This is like humans. Even if they have genetic mutations, they will not suddenly become fish, birds or insects.

Every species has its genetic basis that has evolved over billions of years. If this genetic basis is lost, the species will most likely die of gene collapse during the mutation process.

Biological genes are divided into "unstable genes" and "stable genes". Generally speaking, stable genes account for the vast majority of gene sequences of multicellular organisms, and unstable genes account for a small part.

Microorganisms are the opposite of multicellular organisms. The proportion of unstable genes is relatively high, which is also the reason why microorganisms are prone to mutations.

The Fructus fungi are not out of this category, and the number of unstable genes is about 23,000; while the number of stable genes is about 13,000.

The fluorescent fungi with an unstable gene ratio of up to 60% have a mutation probability and mutation speed, which are more powerful than ordinary microorganisms of Blue Star.

This is also the foundation for the survival of the Florid fungi. They can cross the universe, floating in the subvacuum universe from Mars, following the impact of asteroids, with the fragments of meteorites. If this super mutant characteristic is not available, it would have been a waste of time.

But this is also the characteristic that makes it difficult for the Fluoro fungi to control.

Previously, more than a dozen related research institutes in the federal government were studying Fructus fungi, but in addition to obtaining some derivative results, other results were very few.

It’s not that the researchers have a dry meal, but that the Florus fungi are really too difficult to deal with.

After a series of failures, Li Mingyu's team finally completed the gene sequence determination of the Fructus fungus. This so-called determination is to initially understand the functions represented by the gene.

Of course, there is still a lot of uncertainty in this determination.

The most difficult part of the genes to measure is the 23,000 unstable genes, which are too easy to mutate.

Once the external environment changes, these genes may be mutations.

Li Mingyu's team also took great pains to determine this part of the unstable gene.

The determination of unstable genes cannot be done to determine the specific gene function. Only preliminary measurements can be made on the approximate type, functional range, and direction of possible mutations.

Even such a vague measurement has left Li Mingyu's team with more than 170 researchers busy for two and a half years.

Huang Xiuyuan looked at the general genetic map and he quickly understood the core direction of Li Mingyu's team.

From the gene blueprint of the Florus fungi, it can be seen that Li Mingyu's team put the stable gene of the Florus fungi in the core direction of research.

Instead of being stubborn on unstable genes, they focused on the stable genes.

After determining the gene sequence of a stable gene, the mutation limit range of some unstable genes is locked through the correlation between genes.

Huang Xiuyuan is very optimistic about the ideas of Li Mingyu's team. Instead of fighting against unstable genes, it is better to achieve the possibility of learning by using stable genes.

Apparently they succeeded.

After all, the gene sequence of organisms is rarely an isolated system, and the gene sequence of organisms is often a chain that influences and binds to each other.

This is the concept of gene chains, and gene fragments are linked together.

In fact, this is also a struggle for ideas.

Some genographers believe that a single gene represents a specific function; some genographers believe that in addition to the function expressed by itself, a single gene will also form a system function together with other genes.

Obviously, as the Oriental team, they agree with the latter's philosophy.

That is, the gene itself has a specific function and is combined with its genes to form an overall system function. In addition, the overall system function is most likely not a single layer, but a multi-layer superposition combination.

For example: gene a, gene b, gene, the three genes themselves have three specific functions, and this gene function is called "monomer gene function";

a+b forms an overall system function, which is called "primary system function";

If a+b, b+, and the two primary system functions are combined again, they may form a higher-level system function.

This kind of gene that is constantly superimposed is the essence of the complex life state of organisms.

The essence of the universe is a doll.

The essence of genes is also a doll.

In fact, this is determined by the Basic Law of the Universe.

Huang Xiuyuan had been opposed to the large-scale promotion of "GMO crops" before, and he had concerns about this. Humans' awareness of biological genes is still in a relatively barren state.

Many geneticists have a kind of blind arrogance, and of course there is capital turmoil behind this, which has led to the rapid cultivation of genetically modified crops in various parts of the world.

But the risks involved are huge. The biological gene is an organic whole. According to the Western scientific community's idea of ​​treating the head with headaches and feet with pain.

That is, crops are not drought-resistant, so they cut off the so-called "drought-resistant gene fragment" from the genes of drought-resistant organisms and replace the fragment in.

It is just this behavior that ignores the integrity of biological genes.

Not only may terrible genetic pollution be caused to the crop species itself, but it may also expand this genetic pollution into the entire natural ecosystem.

Perhaps for the ecosystem.

He may not care.

But for humans living there, this is definitely a catastrophic consequence. Don’t think that humans are so great. Humans are actually very fragile.

Whether it is the Fluor fungus from Mars, the periodic Ice Age, or the sudden eruption of Yellowstone volcano, or the super-sized planets hit the blue star.

For Blue Star himself, He actually doesn't care about these things.

There is a saying that goes.

Humans detonate all nuclear bombs and ultimately can only destroy humans themselves. Blue Star may even have its sectors intact. It will take less than a few hundred years to lose the human ecosystem and return to normal state.
Chapter completed!