Douluo See You For a Long Time

Vol 2 Chapter 495: photosynthesis

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As we all know, plants can perform photosynthesis because of the presence of chloroplasts in their cells. Chloroplasts convert light energy into chemical energy.

The inheritance of this structure in cells is not entirely determined by the genetic material in the nucleus. The earliest chloroplast was actually a single cell. It's just that after parasitizing in the cells, his life became better. Gradually this symbiotic relationship developed into the current state of the plant. Chloroplasts are no longer separate cells, but become parts of other cells.

This is actually the same as mitochondria. The genetic material in the cell nucleus is only part of what determines biological traits. The influence of cytoplasmic inheritance on biological traits is also very important.

Therefore, how to enable animals to perform photosynthesis has become a topic worth studying. The nanomachines now implanted in organisms are, in a sense, cytoplasmic inheritance. It's just that when Tulip uses nanomachines now, he knows it but doesn't know why. Although the genetic material and components of nanomachines have been analyzed. But it cannot be produced by artificial means. Perhaps long-term symbiosis can allow them to integrate with the human body and eventually evolve into a creature that is indistinguishable from each other.

However, this technology of controlling cytoplasmic inheritance and changing biological traits by increasing cell structure in the cytoplasm is still very worthy of study.

Allowing animals to perform photosynthesis is one of the important topics in this research, and the development team plans to make it suitable for animals. The chloroplast cells are modified and implanted into the embryo.

In this way, during the development of embryonic cells, chloroplasts will be distributed in every cell of the entire new life. In theory, photosynthesis can take place this way.

But the situation is far from that simple. Plants can perform photosynthesis because they have supporting facilities. Chloroplasts are just software, and the body structures suitable for photosynthesis are hardware.

There are no ducts and sieve tubes in the animal's body, and there are no pores on the skin surface. Transpiration is not possible. Likewise, the nuclei of animal cells cannot direct the synthesis of proteins that inhibit the work of chloroplasts in cells that do not require them.

This causes these embryos to develop abnormally even if they implant, and eventually turn into a mess of flesh. There were no surviving individuals in many experiments.

Of course scientists cannot have only one idea. Since embryos are easily killed by foreign chloroplasts during their development. Then the body modification of mature individuals has also entered the field of vision of scientists.

There is no doubt that the transformation of mature individuals is more difficult. There are eight billion cells in the human body and it is impossible to inject chloroplasts into each of these cells one by one.

So chloroplasts must be modified so that they can replicate themselves without guidance from the nucleus. And invade into cells through a series of means.

Tulip scientists have long been familiar with similar genetic research. A group of geneticists who started with zombie viruses are very good at how to make a cell become aggressive.

It's just that things must go to extremes, and they made the chloroplasts too aggressive, turning them into the green poison they are now. When tested on mice, this chloroplast. The mice were killed in a short time.

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The dead white mouse was a pale green all over. When his body was placed in the sun, it was discovered that photosynthesis could indeed occur. But because the respiratory and circulatory systems have stopped, photosynthesis only lasted a short time. Most of the cells then become necrotic.

Later, experiments were conducted with larger animals. The larger the animal is. The more resistant it is to this kind of chloroplast damage, because the size of chloroplasts is very small and the amount of genetic material they can contain inside is relatively small. An increase in the number of divisions will lead to the loss of genetic material, just like the theory of telomeres in cells.

In the case of a large loss of genetic material, external material added to the genetic information will be lost first. That is, the genetic information that induces chloroplast aggression. Theoretically, as long as the organism is large enough, the injected chloroplasts are few enough. There is a chance of achieving a symbiotic effect.

They once conducted experiments on elephants, in which only one chloroplast was injected. The elephant survived for a full month, although its body surface turned green. But he didn't die immediately, and he didn't need to eat.

It’s just that the size of the elephant still seems to be a little worse after one month. The elephant still died of a brain tumor. As for the captured 100,000-year-old soul beasts, they were later used as experimental subjects.

A small amount of chloroplasts will be directly killed by the immune system of the 100,000-year-old soul beast. A large amount of chloroplasts will directly threaten the life of the 100,000-year-old soul beast. A balance needs to be found. And this balance point is obviously that the larger the body size, the more cells contained in the body are easier to find.

Originally, Tulip wanted to catch the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and give it a try. Based on the huge size of that guy, we should be more than 80% sure that we can make it into a deep-sea magic whale that can perform photosynthesis...

But now that I have met Kunpeng, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.net, the problem becomes simple. Kunpeng is almost a million times larger than the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. This body type does not even need to be adjusted to allow the chloroplast to reach a state of balance with itself. There is no possibility of failure at all. Unless Kunpeng committed suicide and killed dozens of tons of chloroplasts.

But even if he wanted to do it, Cheng Ying didn't have that much inventory.

Kunpeng probably understood Cheng Ying's description, but he was still worried that such a dangerous thing could directly enter his body. After thinking about it, he pecked his wings with his sharp knife.

From his perspective, he had just torn off a small piece of flesh. There was an insignificant wound on the wing, but from Cheng Ying's perspective, he had torn off more than 100 tons of meat from his wing. This is almost as big as an ordinary deep sea devil.

"You try it on this piece of meat first. I will only agree to the injection if I see that it is safe."

This is a reasonable request, and few people would be willing to do it knowing that it is life-threatening. Let people inject him directly into their bodies.

Chengying nodded, 100 tons of body tissue is enough for a very small amount. The chloroplasts have reached equilibrium with it. Cheng Ying injected about 0.1 ml of diluent into the large mass of flesh and blood, and then saw that the flesh and blood began to gradually turn light green from the injection site.

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The green gradually spread and finally covered most of the flesh and blood, and then stopped.

[To be continued]

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