Dahan Technology Empire

On the Ocean 2 space battleship, when the last team dragged the broken spaceship back, everyone who saw it couldn't help but take a long breath!

The advanced spaceships manufactured by the empire are specially used for scientific research. Even small spaceships are very advanced in technology. The hardness of the shell material alone has reached the limit of ordinary materials. These materials are the best of the best!

But now, almost every one of the ten small spaceships is wounded!

The spaceship of Team 8, which was the least injured, was severely bitten off by space creatures. As for Teams 2, 6, and 9, who were the worst, they were able to come back. Thanks to the rescue team for timely rescue, otherwise they It must have died in the mouth of space creatures!

As for their spaceships, they have already been bitten and pitted, completely useless, and some even have space creature teeth, some wreckage, etc. on them!

Immediately conduct research on the obtained space creatures. We must figure out why these space creatures are so crazy about our spaceship, and they will be besieged as soon as they enter it!

In addition, I don't believe in sending out spaceships made of atomic materials. It's their teeth that are stronger, or our atomic materials. We must catch some living space creatures and bring them back!

Liu Yanze breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the people who were safe and sound, and gave two orders in succession!

In the biological research center on Yuanyang 2, Liu Yanze put on protective clothing and began to participate in the research of space creatures. You must know that Liu Yanze is a young scientist in contact with both biology and cosmic astronomy!

Yanze, come and have a look, their genes are really weird!

Seeing Liu Yanze coming, He Jinghao, another young scientist at the Institute of Biology, immediately let Liu Yanze pass because he encountered a problem that he had never encountered in biology!

What's the matter? Liu Yanze heard He Jinghao's words and went over immediately!

Look, this is the genetic map that we dissected and intercepted the space biological samples obtained here, take a closer look!

He Jinghao pointed to a huge computer reality device and said that something similar to a genetic map on the display screen was being continuously improved. It was obvious that scientists were mapping the genes of space creatures here!

The essence and everything of a living thing are actually determined by genes, so the study of biology is more about the study of biological genes. As long as all the genes in a living thing are figured out, then it can be said that this kind of living thing is already It has been thoroughly researched!

Hearing He Jinghao's words, Liu Yanze began to carefully look at the genetic map. As an outstanding biological research scientist like himself, He Jinghao's words were not aimless!

My God! How is it possible? Silicon-based life?

Soon, Liu Yanze let out a burst of exclamation, and the whole person looked unbelievable!

The concept of so-called silicon-based life appeared as early as the 19th century. In 1891, astrophysicist Julius Schinner of the University of Potsdam discussed the possibility of silicon-based life in his article , he was probably the first person to mention silicon-based life.

This concept was accepted by the British chemist James ㄠMerson Reynolds. In 1893, he pointed out in a speech given by the British Association for the Advancement of Science that the thermal stability of silicon compounds makes life based on them possible in a more complex environment. environment to survive.

Although the concept of silicon-based life was proposed very early, and scientists have been working hard to find such life, the possibility of silicon-based life is threatened by many defects.

When carbon is oxidized during the respiration of living organisms on Earth, carbon dioxide gas is formed, a waste material that is easily removed from organisms; When a crystal lattice is formed,

So that each silicon atom is surrounded by four oxygen atoms, instead of each molecule being free separately like carbon dioxide, handling such a solid material will bring great challenges to the breathing process of silicon-based life.

However, some people have questioned that the creator can innovate their energy collection methods when creating such biological systems!

This kind of organism simultaneously eats two (or more) substances required for energy production, and stores them separately in the body. These two (or more) substances may not be gases at all.

After producing wastes composed of silicon compounds, the internal circulatory system can also be composed of blood composed of phosphoric acid (or active substances such as hydrogen fluoride, or substances that react specifically with silicon to generate liquid or gas) and blood vessels with particularly stable chemical properties , although such a circulatory system is not silicon-based it is possible.

It seems that life without a respiratory system is also possible, and it is also feasible for carbon-based life, but obviously this form is obviously inefficient, because carbon-based life has chosen the form of breathing in order to adapt to the nature of the earth.

Some people think that silicon may not be able to produce numerous left-handed and right-handed compounds like carbon. As long as it is a life form, it must collect, store and utilize energy from the external environment.

In carbon-based organisms, the most basic compound for energy storage is carbohydrates. In carbohydrates, carbon atoms are linked by single bonds into a chain, and a series of enzyme-controlled oxidation steps on carbohydrates release energy, waste water and carbon dioxide.

These enzymes are large and complex molecules. They catalyze specific reactions according to the shape of the molecule and the left-handed and right-handed. The left-handed and right-handed here means that the molecule is left-handed or right-handed because of the asymmetry of the carbon contained in the molecule. Most substances in carbon-based organisms display this feature, which enables enzymes to recognize and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms.

However, silicon does not produce as many compounds with left-handed and right-handed characteristics as carbon, which also makes it difficult to be a support element for the large number of interconnected chain reactions required by life. That is, it cannot identify and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms like similar carbon-based life, and release the stored energy.

In addition, the scientists of the Imperial Biological Research have been committed to searching for silicon-based life for a long time, and the Empire has not found it in the star field where species are flourishing such as the Source of Light and the Source of Stars, and even among the space life obtained before. Silicon-based life!

Therefore, scientists have determined that silicon-based life should not exist, because theory and practice have so far proved that these lives are impossible to exist.

But when the facts were in front of his eyes, Liu Yanze was completely taken aback, and at the same time, he became extremely excited. He had seen too much about traditional silicon-based life, and he did not expect to see the legendary silicon-based life. As a scientist in biological research, this is tantamount to great news!

I couldn't believe it at first, but it's true, and you're even more amazed when you look at their genetic makeup!

He Jinghao was not surprised at Liu Yanze's realization, because all biological scientists were shocked when they knew this, including himself, it was hard to believe it at first!

Triple helix structure? My God, how could it be like this, and looking at the structure diagram, it is a triple helix structure composed of two carbon bases and one silicon base!

Liu Yanze continued to read and was surprised again!

The traditional genetic composition is all a double helix structure diagram, which has been recognized by countless scientists as an irreversible iron law, but today once again broke the science's understanding of life, science is indeed subverted and subverted, The universe is really full of wonders!

It's unbelievable! The universe is full of wonders!

Liu Yanze muttered to himself, everything in front of him was really beyond his own cognition. In an instant, he felt that what he knew and knew was just a drop in the ocean, and there were too many, too many secrets in the universe waiting for him to explore!

We have conducted research on the space organisms obtained from multiple star systems, and all the space life genes are all this silicon-based, carbon-based mixed triple helix gene!

The silicon-based genes endow these organisms with the ability to survive and multiply in space, and they can directly obtain energy from the light of stars through these skin-like things on the surface!

At the same time, the silicon-based genes also endow them with the ability to devour metals and strengthen their bodies with metals. This is why our spaceships will be attacked by these space creatures as soon as they enter the stars!

Because this is determined in their genes, the silicon-based genes make them crazily devour metal substances, because this can strengthen their bones, teeth, muscles, etc., so that they have stronger competitiveness and can better pass on the genes!

You should know that in ordinary space, metals are only produced on asteroids, planets, and meteorites, so they will keep drilling into these celestial bodies, swallowing a large amount of metal-containing things, and passing through the body. The chemical action will extract these metals!

But this will consume their energy very much, and it will take a long time, and our spaceships are all made of metal materials, and they have been refined, so they will crazily want to devour these fine metals!

This is like our human pursuit of food!

The other two genetic helices, which are the same as ordinary carbon-based life, endow them with biological characteristics, can reproduce normally, and have the characteristics of all living things!

While facing the gene on the big screen, He Jinghao explained to Liu Yanze, explaining the reason why the spaceship was attacked by space creatures!

That's why, I said why our spaceship will be attacked crazily as soon as it enters it! The metal materials on our spaceship are very precious and necessary for these space creatures!

From this point of view, they are a mixture of silicon-based and carbon-based life, but how did their genes evolve?

Liu Yanze nodded, and then began to study the evolutionary origin of these space creatures!

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