Chapter 379 An experiment that subverted the history of biological science (2 updates)
Chen Xiao first adjusted the lights in the laboratory to the brightest, but fearing that the lights were not bright enough, he moved all the experimental equipment to the experimental bench near the window.
Waiting for the moment of miracle!
"X, too much water!"
Just with a slip of my hand, two hundred milliliters of water came in.
The fruit flies in the container almost overflowed with the water, but fortunately Chen Xiao reacted quickly.
Obviously, fruit flies cannot survive in water.
Because the fruit fly needs oxygen, and it has no way to get enough oxygen in the water, it will only suffocate and die.
The fruit fly also floated on the water as if dead, without any struggle.
The result at the scene was different from what Chen Xiao expected!
The entire experiment lasted for more than a month and consumed almost all of Chen Xiao's energy.
It stands to reason that it is absolutely impossible to fail!
Chen Xiao reviewed the entire experiment process repeatedly, looking at every detail carefully.
Chen Xiao forced himself to calm down. Even if this experiment was unsuccessful, it didn't matter.
At worst, my planned experiment has been delayed.
At this time, Chen Xiao's phone rang, it was Wang Xiang calling.
Chen Xiao had no choice but to interrupt his train of thought.
Wang Xiang called mainly to report on the situation of carbon crystal hard drives and carbon crystal memory in the European market.
Since the release of Microsoft's Windows XP system, Changtian Technology's products have been explicitly excluded from the hardware devices supported by the system.
Both AMD and Dell have repeatedly communicated with Microsoft.
But on this critical link, Microsoft has never let go.
Even though the Windows 98 system already supports Changtian Technology's hardware devices by default, Microsoft still does not back down on the Windows XP system.
The two sides have been spending time there, in a stalemate.
This doesn't matter, after all, Windows XP has just begun to become popular, and it has not affected the profits of Dell and AMD. Although the two sides are in a stalemate, it has not actually harmed the fundamental interests of the other party.
But starting from March after the Spring Festival, Microsoft began to adopt a free upgrade strategy.
This strategy has a great role in promoting the Windows XP system. Currently, more than 30% of users in the entire European market are using the Windows XP system.
Many users who buy computers are also asking whether Dell supports Windows XP.
Dale was very embarrassed.
Europe is different from Xia Country. Xia Country users' use of Changtian Technology's hardware equipment does not conflict with the use of Windows XP.
Because the deeply optimized website has now developed a deeply optimized Windows XP system, it can successfully bypass some of Microsoft's technical obstacles.
But Europe is different. If you use a pirated system in Europe, you may be fined until you go bankrupt.
If Microsoft hadn't been badly beaten by Changtian Technology's pirated system and suddenly gave up on WIN98, there would really be no way for Changtian Technology's hardware to enter Europe now.
Every step of the way leads to wisdom, and this time Microsoft learned a lesson.
Even though technically he cannot defeat the piracy system, legally he is completely defensible.
As long as Microsoft insists on not accepting Changtian Technology's hardware equipment, and European legislation does not allow for the survival of pirated systems, it will be difficult for Changtian Technology's hardware to survive in Europe.
Dell and AMD are now on the verge of a dilemma.
The purpose of Wang Xiang's call to Chen Xiao was to inform Chen Xiao that Dell and AMD had begun to complain during this period.
On the grounds that business in the European market has begun to shrink, Changtian Technology is required to reduce prices to supply hardware products.
There are absolutely no eternal friends between companies.
The best way to maintain a friendship is to make a lot of money together.
Chen Xiao can even predict that if business in Europe is seriously affected, both Dell and AMD will immediately terminate their cooperation with Changtian Technology, or even bite back.
"Let them waste it. Only Europe has interests. Just wait for them to chatter."
Chen Xiao knows very well that in terms of relationships, the relationship between Dell, AMD and Microsoft is closer than his own.
It can be seen for a long time that you need to take precautions, as you may be bitten at any time.
This matter will have to be resolved sooner or later, but not now!
While Chen Xiao was on the phone, a scene that subverted the history of human biology was taking place in the "Water World" near the window.
I saw that the seemingly dead fruit fly that had just been floating on the water was now struggling in the container filled with water.
Because the water surface has a certain tension, it also attracts things attached to the water.
Therefore, the fruit fly can never escape from the water and fly up relying on its own energy. Since it cannot go up, the fruit fly can only go down.
Therefore, you can see the fruit fly flapping in the water, like a clumsy little fish.
After Chen Xiao hung up the phone, he saw this scene in the sunshine.
He was still a little confused. He immediately put the bottle under a microscope and observed it carefully, fearing that he might mistake some unknown bugs for fruit flies.
After adjusting the accuracy of the microscopic distance, Chen Xiao was able to determine that the relatively active insect in the container was his modified fruit fly.
The fruit fly is alive! Surviving in the water!
Drosophila is an aerobic organism. Although its cells can perform short-term anaerobic respiration, it is absolutely impossible to survive in water for several minutes.
The fact that the fruit fly is alive proves that the experiment was successful!
Chen Xiao conducted another period of testing.
He used a thermometer and poked it in the water.
When the fruit fly encounters a crisis, it continues to swim hard in the water, hoping to escape the crisis.
When the fruit fly is swimming, the mitochondria in the cells throughout the body are supplying energy. Mitochondria are responsible for respiration, and the fruit fly also needs a lot of oxygen at this time.
Fruit flies are different from fish, and they are also different from other insects in the water.
It has no way to get oxygen from water.
The only source of oxygen comes from itself - the Rhodospirillum bacteria that Chen Xiao placed in the fruit flies through experiments.
Like cyanobacteria, Rhodospirillum belongs to a very special type of bacteria on earth - photosynthetic bacteria.
This type of bacteria can perform photosynthesis like green plants.
At this time, metabolism is going on inside the Rhodospirillum bacteria.
It absorbs the carbon dioxide produced by fruit flies during aerobic exercise, and uses light energy to fix carbon and produce oxygen.
Oxygen is absorbed by the fruit fly's cells, supplying the fly's oxygen needs.
To ensure the long-term survival of fruit flies in the water.
This is why Chen Xiao used fruit flies with relatively transparent bodies and placed them under sunlight and lights!
Perhaps because he was tired of being teased by Chen Xiao, the fruit flies were floating on the water again as if they were dead.
After Chen Xiao threw the fruit peel into the container, the fruit flies swam toward the peel as if they were alive and sucked the juice from the peel in the water.
Looking at such experimental results, Chen Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.
The first step of the experiment was considered a success, but the next steps will be more difficult, and may even require the help of technical personnel from the Xia Academy of Sciences.
The ultimate goal of Chen Xiao's experiment is to use electrical energy instead of light energy to promote the reduction metabolic reaction of Rhodospirillum, and to allow other metabolites except oxygen to have no negative impact on the organism at all.