How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 15: Thinking

   "It doesn't seem to be protein."

  The cell did not follow Hogu's instructions to divide new individuals, which means that the answer is the second kind.

   "Since it is not a protein, it should have nothing to do with amino acids."

  Amino acid is the smallest unit of protein. Numerous amino acids make up a polypeptide. The polypeptide is repeatedly folded and twisted to form a three-dimensional protein.

   Then what is it that will keep me thinking and human memory now?

   I thought it was the most probable protein, but now it has been falsified, Huogu logic has entered a blind spot, and it decided to sort it out again.

   "Well... Whether it is the Internet, the human brain, or the computer, they are all in common, that is, they have a huge number of computing units as the basis. This research direction should be correct."

   "My situation, it should be the same, there are a huge number of cells as the basis of the calculation unit, and the connection between them should also be universal..."

"The human brain uses synapses to build connections. Obviously, this does not apply to me now. At present, this is just a cluster of cells. They do not have physical connections like synapses. The previous experiment also proved Now, the connection between cells has nothing to do with protein."

   The core issue that Huogu wanted to explore gradually became clear.

   "That's right, it's the ‘connection’. What exactly do the cells rely on as a medium to build a connection to form a huge network?"

   Huogu focused his attention on the entire cell cluster, trying to discover the ‘medium’ between the cells through this macroscopic approach.

   The result is still nothing, even if it is now able to see all the cells from the inside out.

   "It is impossible to rely on electromagnetic waves to build connections between computing units like the Internet, right?"

   "Impossible, although I am not specialized in the computer field, but as far as I know the little bit of knowledge, this guess is untenable."

  There is no other reason, there are too many external interferences, and the life field constructed by cells is really too weak, so weak that the energy released by the chemical reaction occurring in the seawater can destroy this weak to the extreme life field...

   Huogu's thoughts suddenly stopped, and it keenly grasped the moment of inspiration in the sea of ​​thoughts.

   "...Wait, this seems to make sense."

   "Because the external interference is too strong, this connection can only act on the inside of the cell, which can also explain why two cells need to be attached to each other for my instructions to take effect."

   The internal environment of the cell is very stable. If it is the same as the external environment of the cell membrane, the genes of the inner core cannot exist stably, so the inside of the cell must be very stable.

   And in such a stable environment, the life field that has been disturbed is also well expanded and effective.

   So, there is this life network now!

   In order to confirm his conjecture, Huo Gu decided to conduct a new experiment.

  The outermost parietal cell of the cell cluster begins to divide, then the inner cell, then the parietal cell, creating a small cavity.

   Fill this cavity with pure water, and Huogu put a single cell into it.

   This cell has this flagella, the most primitive cell membrane, and the DNA core. Apart from that, there is nothing. This is what Hogu deliberately did in order to ensure that the experiment did not go wrong.

   "Now, following my instructions, start to move around the entire cavity in a circle, but can't touch the inner wall of the cavity."

Sure enough, the stationary cell in the cavity began to swing its flagella, following Huogu's instructions, and even like an arm, swimming around the inner wall of the cavity just like the trajectory imagined in Huogu’s thinking. , Without touching the inner wall of the cavity even once.

   After swimming like a tadpole for a while, the cells used as the experiment stopped, and the flagella on the tail no longer moved.

In this case, Huogu was not surprised. The movement of the flagella requires the lysis of amino acids. At present, the cavity in which the experimental cells are located is only water, and the experimental cells that cannot obtain amino acids naturally have no choice but to stop the flagella. , This is the same reason as the fuel exhaustion of the rocket propeller.

   "So what about the'field source'? Since it relies on the field, there should be a source that generates the field."

   After thinking about it, Huogu decided to use the method of elimination.

  The cell membrane and cytoplasm are preferentially removed by Huogu, because it can instruct cells to unspin and transcribe DNA, which is not the ability to control the cell membrane or cytoplasm.

   It can be said that the answer is obvious from the beginning, the source of the field is'hidden' in the messy double strands of DNA in the inner core.

   "...I'm like this, isn't it a little too cautious?"

   After making complaints about himself, Huogu continued to focus his energy on the experimental cells.

   Between the parietal cells on the inner wall of the experimental cavity, proteins were successively squeezed out of it and added to the purified water.

   As time goes by, the water in the cavity becomes extremely eutrophic, and the tail flagella of the experimental cells swings up again and moves in a circle around the inner wall of the cavity.

  Considering the possible danger, Huogu established a connection between the experimental cavity and the digestive cavity, and relied on a valve to separate the two cavities.

   After everything was ready, Huogu gave new instructions to the experimental cells.

   "Partly untwist, transcribe DNA, create new individuals."

   The experimental cells began to replicate new individuals because it was partially transcribed, and the time required for the collection of materials and the process of replicating new individuals was very short.

   Soon, UU reading www. uukanshu.com Huogu saw the newly born individual cells.

   This new individual also has a flagella, but it may be due to part of the transcription of DNA. Compared with the original parent, the new individual’s body size has shrunk directly to one-twentieth of the mother’s size.

   "You, on the premise that you don't touch the inner wall of the cavity, make a circular motion around the entire cavity." Huogu gave instructions to the newly formed individual cells.

   However, this newborn individual did not act according to Huogu's wishes, but wandered aimlessly around in the cavity, no different from the microbes that Huogu had come into contact with before.

   There is only one reason for this. The cloned cell does not have a ‘field source’ in the inner core, so it will not follow Huogu’s instructions.

   Huogu was not surprised. This was what it expected. In a mess of genetic chain, the probability of successfully finding a field source at one time was equivalent to winning a million prize in the first time buying a lottery ticket.

   Similarly, it doesn't feel distressed. The most important thing it lacks now is time.

   "It doesn't seem to be this piece of DNA. The transcribed DNA needs to be extended further to expand the scope of replication."

  Thinking about the DNA to be transcribed in the next section, Huogu gave transcription instructions to the original experimental cells.

   "Copy the new individual, partially transcribed."

  ...

   Repeated experiments were carried out over and over again, and the number of cells in the replicated individual in the cavity increased from the original single digit to an uncountable level.

   Finally, it found!

   After not knowing how many times the DNA was repeatedly transcribed, Huogu was finally able to control the new individuals transcribed by the experimental cells, which also means that it has found the mysterious field source.

   "Why... it's such a substance?!"