Chapter 293: Artificial Life - Big Leaf Electric Lotus

Zhou Yu received Wang Xiaoxiao's message, and he immediately rushed to the Spark Research Center.

Just 5 days after the start-up of the space biology laboratory, Wang Xiaoxiao and the others obtained results.

Zhou Yu couldn't believe it, and the speed was too fast.

He quickly came to Wang Xiaoxiao's office and saw Wang Xiaoxiao was reviewing a plant with several scientists.

This plant grows very strangely. It has lotus-like leaves, which hold relatively large lotus pods and float on the water.

The leaves of this plant are pale green with white markings. The lotus pod is light purple, and its lotus pod is much larger than that of the lotus flower.

The roots and stem of this plant are not visible, it only seems to have leaves and fruit.

Zhou Yu immediately stepped forward and asked: "This plant, is it a plant that uses ZPSB base pairs to synthesize genetic material?"

"That's right, this is the plant we created. It is a completely artificial creature. Any gene function in its genetic material is edited by our scientists.

We prepared 3200 sets of plant genes.

According to genes, organisms are synthesized by equipment.

Only this plant survived by artificially manipulating artificial base pairs to synthesize genetic material and cell matrix, and all other projects failed.

Through this successful project, we have locked down which genes are composed of artificial base pairs and which genes are effective.

We can fully control all the habits of this creature, unless it has a genetic mutation, otherwise it will survive exactly according to our design. "Wang Xiaoxiao said excitedly.

"I thought you would design organisms similar to bacteria or viruses at first, but I didn't expect you to design a plant. What are the characteristics of this plant?" Zhou Yu asked staring at the plant.

"Mr. Zhou, we must synthesize controllable artificial organisms. Higher organisms such as plants are composed of tens of billions of genes. Even if a certain group of genes is mutated, it will not affect the entire organism.

Bacterial viruses are completely different. The length of their genes is shorter, and their genes are not folded into chromosomes, so they are more prone to genetic mutations.

We don't yet know what the specific changes in organisms are using this artificial base pair?

Using microorganisms rashly for the first time can cause great harm. "

After Wang Xiaoxiao introduced his choice, he asked Zhou Yu: "Mr. Zhou, haven't you discovered the peculiarity of this plant? Take a closer look at its environment, and you can understand its function."

When Zhou Yu heard Wang Xiaoxiao say this, he knew the particularity of this plant, and it must be obvious at a glance.

He concentrated on watching the plants in the video.

"It just looks a little strange, and it doesn't have too strange performance on its body.

Hydroponics plants are not special at all, and artificial light sources are abundant in the space lab. "

Zhou Yu stopped here, and he grasped the point in a flash.

There is no air in the space laboratory, and it will cost a lot of money to arrange air and other life support systems. There is no one in the space laboratory, and they are all intelligent robots. At that time, no life support system was considered.

Zhou Yu looked at the introduction next to the space laboratory, and the environment clearly marked the state of vacuum.

The plant can survive in a vacuum and only needs water to survive.

Zhou Yu can directly predict that this plant can absorb water, carbon dioxide and other substances in the water, and does not need to absorb through the air.

This plant is not important at all on Earth, which is covered by a dense atmosphere.

But if this plant is placed in the universe, then it is the decisive plant.

Most of the planets in the universe are very desolate. A small number of planets have water, but they do not necessarily have an atmosphere. Even if there is an atmosphere, the composition of the atmosphere is hardly similar to that of the earth.

This plant can live directly in a vacuum, and it can grow and survive as long as there is water.

The moon will be developed in the future. It is easy to build a gathering place, but it is difficult to build an ecological circle for the moon.

It is not technically difficult to transport water resources from the earth and build an artificial lake on the moon.

But I want to transport the atmosphere from the earth and build an atmosphere on the moon.

This technology is very difficult and requires a complete transformation of the moon.

The main purpose of building the atmosphere is to form an ecosystem and cultivate animals and plants.

Now there are plants that do not depend on the atmosphere to survive, and the atmosphere is not a necessary condition for the development of the universe.

On the contrary, people are easy to deal with. They wear spacesuits outside and only provide oxygen to the living buildings, which reduces the technical difficulty by several orders of magnitude.

Zhou Yu stared at this plant with a satisfied expression on his face, and praised: "This plant can survive in a vacuum. A plant with this function is the best cosmic plant. If it can provide food and nutrition Material, that's even better."

Wang Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "We can meet Mr. Zhou's request.

I named this plant Dayedianlian. Its lotus pod contains sucrose, highly concentrated sucrose that can be eaten directly.

The leaves of Electric Lotus are rich in crude fiber. Because the cells of this artificial plant are different from common food, it is not recommended for people to eat this plant directly.

But the leaves can be used as food for livestock. After any cells are broken down by the digestive system, they will become basic components such as amino acids and nucleotides.

These basic ingredients will not affect the livestock, and people can use the meat of this livestock.

If we really start the construction of space farms and pastures, we will continue to develop this space plant, as well as livestock adapted to this plant. "

When Zhou Yu heard Wang Xiaoxiao's words, the smile on his face became stronger, and he hurriedly asked: "This plant also has photosynthesis, and can also synthesize sucrose by itself. The concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the water can continuously support this plant for photosynthesis. Does it work?"

Wang Xiaoxiao knocked on the table, and the screen in front showed the process of Dayedianlian's synthesis of sucrose.

The plant does not have chloroplasts, so it cannot photosynthesize.

But it has a type of electrochondrome designed by scientists that can produce the photoelectric effect.

When the sun shines on the leaves of the electric lotus, the electrochondria undergo a photoelectric reaction to generate a kind of bioelectricity.

This bioelectricity can synthesize sucrose through a series of biological reactions through carbon dioxide and water.

This process can convert the energy in sunlight into bioenergy that can be used by Electric Lotus, and store the excess energy into sucrose.

"The solubility of carbon dioxide in water is very easy to handle, and the highly compressed dry ice is very easy to store.

The sensor can detect the concentration of carbon dioxide in the water in real time and keep the concentration of carbon dioxide in the water in an optimal state.

The success of Dayedianlian has shown us the feasibility of using artificial base pairs to synthesize artificial life.

In the future, we will edit more complex genes and synthesize better plants according to the corresponding functions of genes. "

Wang Xiaoxiao said excitedly that in the foreseeable future, he can already see that artificial plants will follow the footprints of human beings all over the universe.

Thanks to "Ye Zi Bo Tao" for the reward