As we all know, plants can perform photosynthesis because they have chloroplasts in their cells. Chloroplasts can 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 chloroplasts were actually single cells. However, they later lived better after parasitizing cells. Gradually,
This symbiotic relationship gradually developed into the current status of plants later. Chloroplasts are no longer separate cells, but become parts of other cells.
This is actually the same as mitochondria. The genetic material in the nucleus only determines part of the 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 living organisms are, in a sense, cytoplasmic inheritance. However, when tulips now use nanomachines, they are
We know it but don’t know why. Although the genetic material and components of nanomachines have been analyzed, they cannot be manufactured 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.
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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 of this research. The development team plans to transform chloroplast cells suitable for animals and implant them into embryos.
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 be carried out.
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 body of animals, and there are no pores on the surface of the skin. Transpiration cannot occur. Similarly, the nuclei of animal cells cannot direct the synthesis of corresponding proteins to inhibit the work of chloroplasts in cells that do not require chloroplasts.
This resulted in these embryos developing abnormally even after implantation, and eventually turning into a mess of flesh. There were no surviving individuals in many experiments.
Of course, scientists cannot only have this idea. Since embryos can easily die due to foreign chloroplasts during development, then the body modification of mature individuals has also entered the field of vision of scientists.
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to transform mature individuals. There are 8 billion cells in the human body and it is impossible to inject chloroplasts into each of these cells one by one.
Therefore, chloroplasts must be modified so that they can replicate themselves without the guidance of 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 in reverse. They made the chloroplasts too aggressive and turned them into the green poison they are now. When tested on mice, this chloroplast killed the mice in a short time.
The dead white mouse was a pale green all over. When his body was placed in the sun, it was found that photosynthesis could indeed occur. However, because the respiratory and circulatory systems had stopped, photosynthesis only lasted a short time. After that, most of the time
The cells become necrotic.
Later, experiments were conducted with larger animals. The larger the animal, the more resistant it is to this kind of chloroplast damage, because the size of chloroplasts is small and the genetic material contained inside is relatively small.
Increased frequency will lead to the loss of genetic material, just like the theory of cell telomeres.
When a large amount of genetic material is lost, the external material added to the genetic information will be lost first. That is, the genetic information that induces chloroplasts to be aggressive. Theoretically, as long as the organism is large enough and the injected chloroplasts are few enough, there will be.
Chances of achieving symbiotic effects.
They once conducted an experiment on an elephant, in which only one chloroplast was injected. The elephant survived for a full month. Although its body surface turned green, it did not die immediately. Instead, it did not need to eat.
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However, the size of the elephant seemed to be a little off. A month later, the elephant still died of a brain tumor. As for the captive 100,000-year-old soul beast, it was later used as an experimental subject.
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 point needs to be found. And this balance point is obviously that the larger the body, the more energy it has in the body.
The more cells it contains, the easier it is to find.
Originally, Tulip wanted to catch the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and try it. With that guy's huge size, he should be more than 80% sure of making it into a Deep Sea Demonic Whale that can perform photosynthesis...
But now that we have met Kunpeng, the problem is simple. Kunpeng's volume is almost a million times that of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King. This size does not even need to be adjusted to allow the chloroplasts to reach a state of balance with itself. It does not even fail.
Probably none. Unless Kunpeng committed suicide and produced dozens of tons of chloroplasts.
But even if he wanted to do it, Chengying 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 point of view, he only tore off a small piece of meat. There was an insignificant wound on the wing, but from Cheng Ying's point of view, he tore 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. Knowing that it is a fatal thing, few people would be willing to have someone directly inject it into their bodies.
Cheng Ying nodded, 100 tons of body tissue is enough for a very small amount of chloroplasts to reach a balanced state. Cheng Ying injected about 0.1 ml of diluent into the large mass of flesh and blood, and then he saw that from the injection
Starting from the position, the piece of flesh began to gradually turn into light green.
The green gradually spread and finally covered most of the flesh and blood, and then it stopped.