MTL - The Rise of Space Technology-Chapter 148 , the magic of biological genes

   Chapter 148, The magic of biological genes

  In the Bioenergy Laboratory of the Biotechnology Research Institute of Xinghai Science and Technology Research Institute, Zheng Yuan is leading his team to study bioenergy technology.

  Bioenergy technology is also a new field. There are not too many scientists studying this field in the world. When oil prices skyrocketed, bioenergy technology was once very popular. Many institutions and scientists are studying this field.

However, with the slump in oil prices in the past few years, the price of oil has stabilized, and the maturity of shale oil extraction technology has greatly increased the production of oil, and the price of oil has also ushered in a slump. Once there was a crude oil price the case of negative numbers.

   This also means that many scientists and institutions studying bioenergy have lost important support. Under the circumstance of low crude oil prices, naturally no one is willing to invest in and support research in the field of bioenergy.

   What's more, there has not been much achievement in the field of bioenergy for a long time, so this field has not been paid much attention, and there is not much research.

   "Gene recombination is really not an easy task. It can easily lead to gene collapse. During this period of time, the experiment has not progressed at all."

   Zheng Yuan sighed slightly.

  Gene recombination technology, there is no doubt that this is an advanced technology that Liu Yuan took out of the inheritance seeds.

  The so-called genetic recombination, as the name implies, is the technology of recombining genes together. In short, it is the technology of replacing a certain gene fragment with the gene fragment you want, and recombining the genes of two different organisms.

  This technology is definitely a broad road in the field of biological gene technology. From the lowest-level parent star civilization to the powerful civilization in the universe, almost everyone will study this technology, because its application is too extensive.

  A variety of artificial organisms can be produced by using genetic recombination technology, and these artificial organisms often have a certain function according to the needs.

   For example, bioenergy is an important field.

  Using bio-gene sufficient technology to create new bio-energy plants or animals. In terms of the energy of the parent star civilization, whether it is coal or oil, in the end, it can be classified as the conversion of solar energy.

  Coal is formed by plants buried deep underground for a long time, and oil is formed by long-term precipitation of living things buried deep underground, but in the end, it can still be traced back to the head of the sun.

After all, coal and oil are both limited resources, and it takes a long time to accumulate and accumulate. When a civilization develops to a certain level, the population is increasing, and the demand for energy is increasing. From time to time, this civilization will gradually research and develop in the field of bioenergy.

  Research and manufacture some plants or animals that can directly convert solar energy into bioenergy through biological gene recombination technology, so as to replace traditional energy.

   Of course, this is only the technology used by the parent-star civilization and the star-level civilization. For a more advanced civilization, the energy they need will be even greater, and more powerful technology is needed to solve the energy problem.

  In addition to the energy field, gene recombination has a very wide range of applications. It can be used in biomedical technology, using animal organs to replace human organs, and can also be used in the field of warfare. There is no need to say more about the terribleness of biological viruses.

   Of course, these are all conventional methods. Genetic recombination in the powerful civilizations of the interstellar universe has been played out. This is a clear road, even the top civilizations in the universe are studying biological genetic technology.

  Gene recombination is not an easy task.

  The biological genes in nature have evolved and mutated over a long period of time, and finally formed a stable gene.

   Artificial gene recombination to recombine the genes of different organisms. Basically, the biggest possibility is that the genes will collapse, and there is no way to recombine them together.

   You must know that genes are very magical. More than 95% of human genes and mouse genes are the same, but the remaining little different genes determine the huge difference between humans and mice.

  Gene recombination is not a random combination, it must follow certain principles.

  In terms of the simplest genetic recombination, grafting technology is the simplest application of genetic recombination technology. Of course, this cannot be regarded as genetic recombination, because grafting technology is not genetic recombination, but a simple application of genetic technology.

   But in essence, it is almost the same, and a certain goal has been achieved.

   The use of grafting technology to increase harvests, improve disease resistance, etc., is similar to the purpose of genetic recombination technology.

There is also hybridization technology, which can also be regarded as an application of genetic recombination technology in essence. It combines excellent genes of different species to obtain the desired effects, such as increasing yield, improving disease resistance, and obtaining better meat quality. variety, etc.

But whether it is grafting technology or hybridization technology, it is not random, but must follow certain principles. The best one is to graft and hybridize between biological close relatives. It is impossible to say that watermelon is grafted onto apple trees. , This is a watermelon or an apple.

   At that time, someone will definitely say, is the watermelon derailed, or whether the apple has changed his mind or something.

The same is true for genetic recombination technology, which cannot be randomly combined and recombined. Many biological recombination principles must be followed, or special genetic recombination technology is required to be able to combine the continuous genes to get what you want. desired result.

   To put it simply, you cannot mix animal genes with plant genes randomly, because the genes are incompatible with each other and are exclusive.

   It should be known that there is a strong rejection between human bodies, so organ transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, etc. must be matched, and only those who match can be transplanted.

   But even if they are matched, there will also be rejection after transplantation, and there will be sequelae of rejection reaction, which requires relevant treatment.

  The recombination between genes is not an easy task. The genes are incompatible, mutually exclusive, and incompatible, which will bring many problems and problems to gene recombination.

The team led by    Zheng Yuan has now encountered such a problem. The research has made no progress and always ended in failure. So far, there are very few results.

   "What are you sighing?"

   I don't know when Liu Yuan came over. Looking at Zheng Yuan who was sighing, Liu Yuan also asked with a smile.

   "Boss~"

   When he saw Liu Yuan, Zheng Yuan also hurriedly said hello, and immediately said, "This genetic recombination is really not easy. The two new energy plants we have finally developed are very unsatisfactory."

   "This oil coconut was originally huge and very promising, but now it seems that it is still a failure. The growth rate is too slow. It is estimated that it will take at least ten years to complete the expansion."

"We speculate that it is very likely that the recombined gene inhibits its growth gene, followed by its oil yield. Judging from the current situation, its oil yield is not satisfactory, and the gene in this regard has not been obtained. Strengthen and stand out.”

   Zheng Yuan brought Liu Yuan to the oil coconut planted in the laboratory. The oil coconut is the most important achievement of Zheng Yuan's team so far.

   It mainly uses a new variety obtained by recombining the genes of two plants, oil coconut and rubber tree. Because it is mainly based on the gene of oil coconut, it is still called oil coconut.

   In the assumption of Zheng Yuan's team, oil coconut should have the characteristics of rapid growth, rapid oil production, and high oil production rate, and at the same time, it has strong adaptability and can grow in most subtropical and tropical regions.

   However, now, its growth rate is really unsatisfactory, it is too slow, and based on the existing genes, its oil production rate is estimated to be strong enough, it can be said to be a failure.

   It is 108,000 miles away from the ideal bio-energy plant in your heart.

   "Well, what is its genetic sequence, let me see."

   When Liu Yuan heard this, he smiled and said.

   "Okay~"

   Zheng Yuan also hurriedly asked Liu Yuan to show the genetic sequence map of the oil coconut.

   "Now oil prices have skyrocketed overnight, and they also want to use oil to force us to hand over chip technology, and want us to sell chips to them."

  Liu Yuan carefully looked at the gene sequence map, and also chatted with Zheng Yuan about the current oil price.

   "Oil prices go up again?"

   "I haven't been out for a long time, I really don't know."

   Zheng Yuan said quickly when he heard it.

   "It has risen to 18 yuan. This is still 92 gasoline, and 95 is even more expensive."

   "I'll go, it's 18 yuan! Does this let people live?"

   Zheng Yuan was taken aback when he heard it, because the food and lodging are in the research institute and Luoxing community. He walks to and from get off work, and he doesn't need to drive at all. I really didn't expect the oil price to rise to 18 yuan all of a sudden.

"That's not it, the major oil-producing countries have announced significant production cuts, and the oil price itself has skyrocketed. Now it no longer exports to us. It is strange that the oil price has not skyrocketed, and it will continue to rise. It is estimated that after a while, there may be rich people Can't buy oil anymore."

   "The other party directly said that it was because of our Xinghai Technology, which also brought our Xinghai Technology to the cusp of the storm."

   Liu Yuan also nodded, and immediately told the matter.

   "They are so shameless to use such means. When they didn't sell technology to us before, why didn't they say so."

   Zheng Yuan immediately said extremely angrily.

   "It's useless to be angry, all we have to do is to use our knowledge and technology to completely bring down their oil empire."

   Liu Yuan smiled, and then said very loudly.

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   (end of this chapter)