Xueba's technology tree

Chapter 407 Miraculous Organelles
Spark Science and Technology Research Institute, the cell laboratory is brightly lit.

Tao Shengwen drank a bottle of high-energy drink and continued with related experiments.

His eyes were bloodshot due to long-term lack of sleep.

In the last scientific research competition, Tao Shengwen led the cell laboratory, but lost to Wang Xiaoxiao's genetic laboratory.

Longevity light technology transforms cells and has no effect on genes at all.

However, because of his slightly inferior skills and unlucky luck, he never competed with Wang Xiaoxiao and the others.

The consequences of this are very serious. Some scientists in the cell laboratory have been transferred away. They specialize in studying the impact of longevity light technology on cells.

The funding for the cell laboratory is not as sufficient as before. Now it is impossible to set up more than 10 projects at a time if we want to give full play to the whimsy of scientists.

Want to restore the previous prosperity, unless they research the key technology.

Tao Shengwen was very unconvinced and got up wherever he fell.

He lost to Wang Xiaoxiao in his professional field, and now he will give him an effective counterattack in their professional field.

Tao Shengwen quickly seized this opportunity. Zhou Yu led a scientific research team to investigate Ceres, and they discovered a relatively primitive life on Ceres.

This extraterrestrial life that does have cell activity immediately shocked scientists in the biological field of the Spark Science and Technology Research Institute.

Each laboratory has set up related projects to study life on Ceres.

Paleontological scientists want to study the origin of life on Earth from life on Ceres.

Life on Ceres is a very primitive carbon-based life. They can use analogy to verify scientists' speculation about the origin of life on Earth.

Tao Shengwen has no interest in this kind of archaeological research. Even if he knows how life on earth originated, it will not have much practical effect.

He is now directing the scientists in the laboratory to explore the reason why life on Ceres can exist in the harsh environment of Ceres.

Tao Shengwen designed the laboratory path again and let the scientists in the laboratory start the experiment.

He looked again at the data of life on Ceres. These data were summarized by the research results of multiple laboratories.

[Name] (to be determined): Life on Ceres

【Type】: Prokaryotes
【Genetic material】: single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid.

【Life cycle】: 75 hours
[Growth environment]: 3~45 degrees Celsius water
[Oxygen demand]: no oxygen required
【Food】: small molecule organic matter
The particularity of the "food" of life on Ceres is a unique discovery by Tao Shengwen and the others.Life on Ceres requires only methane and water.

Life on Ceres is a kind of microorganism. It does not need oxygen to survive. As long as there is methane and water in the environment, it can live very well.

Ceres life is a kind of primitive life, and it has every shortcoming of primitive life.

The single-stranded DNA structure makes its genetic material very easy to collapse, which is also an important reason why it can only survive for a little more than three days.

There are many shortcomings of life on Ceres, but it is not without a little bit of advantages.

Tao Shengwen was very lucky this time. They discovered an important phenomenon that other scientists had not discovered.

Life on Ceres requires only methane and water to survive, and nothing else.

The expedition team led by Zhou Yu found similar amino acids in the sample water they brought back, which are the important components of life cells on Ceres.

Other labs believe that water rich in this substance is the food for life on Ceres.

The life they cultivated on Ceres has been sluggish, with low cell activity, which others believe is a normal part of the altered environment.

An experimental assistant in Tao Shengwen's laboratory did not strictly follow the microbial disinfection procedures.

He brought several life forms on Ceres, which were cultivated in the culture tide, into the methane aqueous solution.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, there were only a few beings on Ceres, but tens of thousands of them self-replicated.

This phenomenon directly shocked Tao Shengwen, he did not expect the activity of these Ceres life cells to become so strong.

It can reproduce rapidly only by relying on methane and water.

This phenomenon is simply unbelievable. Life on Ceres replicates so quickly, how are the organic substances that make up their cells synthesized?Where does the energy they need to survive come from?

Through certain physical and chemical reactions, methane and water can indeed be transformed into various organic substances, but this process requires the absorption of a large amount of energy.

The survival of life on Ceres also requires a lot of energy, which cannot be provided by methane and water.

Life on Ceres is a life that lives deep in the crust, and they do not have photosynthesis.

Tao Shengwen immediately speculated that there are other ways for life on Ceres to obtain energy.

Finding this discovery is more important than finding that life on Ceres can synthesize organic matter by itself.

Once other plants can take advantage of this feature, it means that these plants can survive in the universe and no longer need to provide the light source they need for growth.

Especially when growing crops in the universe, the most troublesome thing is that the light source cannot be solved.

For example, on a slow-rotating planet like the moon, certain regions will take a very long time to enjoy the sunlight.

Only artificial light sources can be used now, which require an extremely complex system and are far less efficient than sunlight.

It is precisely because of this shortcoming that space plants have not been able to be applied on a large scale until now.

"It worked, our experiment worked.

"Life on Ceres has refreshed my understanding of life. I didn't expect this kind of life to exist in the universe."

The Cell Lab scientists immediately cheered that their project had finally succeeded.

With this achievement, it has a certain ability to overwhelm the genetic laboratory, which is definitely not inferior to the discovery of longevity optical technology.

Tao Shengwen immediately looked at the results of the laboratory. As he expected, life on Ceres can achieve this strange phenomenon, which is closely related to its cell structure.

They proved through experiments that there is a strange organelle in the living cells of Ceres.

This organelle has a somewhat complicated structure, which can convert a certain radiation energy of the universe into chemical energy, and provide the energy needed for life to carry out physiological and chemical reactions.

Experiments have shown that the organelles of life on Ceres are at work.

The current goal of Tao Shengwen and the others is to reproduce the special structure of this organelle, try to transfer it to other cells, and play a corresponding role.

They also want to find this radiant energy that has magical functions.

They are like the relationship between sunlight and chloroplasts, which is a one-to-one correspondence.

In order to succeed in this project, not only must this peculiar organelle be researched, but also the radiation energy that matches it must be found.

Tao Shengwen already had an idea in his mind, and probably locked in the type of this radiant energy.

Rays similar to alpha rays, which cannot penetrate the thick crust of Ceres, are directly ruled out.

Gamma rays are extremely penetrating, but they contain too much energy to directly destroy fragile cells.

This category is also excluded, so there are not many options left, and they will definitely succeed in their experiments one by one.

(End of this chapter)