Vol 3 Chapter 240: , Silicon-based life?

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On the "Ocean Ocean 2" spaceship, when the last team returned with the broken spaceship, everyone saw a long breath!
The advanced spacecraft manufactured by the Empire is specially used for scientific research. Even the small spacecraft has very advanced technology. As a shell material alone, its hardness has reached the limit of ordinary materials. Apart from the materials created by atomic angle, these materials are the best!
But today, almost every ten small spaceships are wounded!
The spacecraft of the 8th team with the least injury was also bitten by the space creatures severely. As for the worst 2nd, 6th, and 9th teams, it is already thankful to be able to return, thanks to the rescue team for timely rescue, otherwise they It must be in the mouth of the dead space creature!
As for their spaceships, the potholes that have already been bitten at this time are completely dead, and some even have space creatures' teeth, some wreckage, and so on!
"Study the acquired space creatures immediately, and we must figure out why these space creatures are so crazy about our spacecraft that they will be besieged as soon as they enter!"
"In addition, when sending out the spacecraft made of atomic materials, I don't believe it. Their teeth are terrible or our atomic materials are terrific. We must catch some living space creatures back!"
Liu Yanze was relieved when he saw the unsuspecting personnel and issued two orders in succession!
At the biological research center on the "Ocean 2", Liu Yanze put on protective clothing and began to participate in the research of space biology. You must know that Liu Yanze is a young scientist in the fields of biology and cosmic astronomy!
"Yanze, come and see, their genes are so strange!"
Seeing Liu Yanze coming over, another young scientist on the side of the Institute of Biological Sciences, He Jinghao immediately asked Liu Yanze to pass because he encountered a problem that had never been encountered in biology!
"What's wrong?" Liu Yanze heard He Jinghao's words and passed immediately!
"Look, this is the gene map we have dissected and obtained the biological samples of the space here. Take a closer look!"
He Jinghao pointed to a huge computer reality device and said that something similar to the gene map on the display screen is constantly being improved. Obviously, this is the scientists mapping the genes of the space creatures here!
The nature and everything of an organism are actually determined by genes, so biological research is more often a study of biological genes. As long as you understand all the genes in the organism, it can be said that this organism has already Researched thoroughly!
After hearing He Jinghao's words, Liu Yanze began to look carefully at the genetic map. As an outstanding biological research scientist like himself, He Jinghao's words were not targeted.
"Oh my God! How is that possible? Silicon-based life?"
Soon, Liu Yanze exclaimed, the whole person looked incredible!
The concept of so-called silicon-based life appeared as early as the 19th century. In 1891, astrophysicist Julio Schönner of the University of Potsdam explored the possibility of the existence of silicon-based life in an article. He is probably the first person to mention silicon-based life.
This concept was accepted by the British chemist James Simerson Reynolds. In 1893, he pointed out in a speech by the British Association for the Advancement of Science that the thermal stability of silicon compounds makes life based on silicon more complex. Survive in the environment.
Although the concept of silicon-based life was proposed very early, and scientists have been working to find such a life, the possibility of the existence of silicon-based life is threatened by many defects.
When carbon is oxidized during the respiration of Earth's organisms, carbon dioxide gas is formed, which is a waste substance that can be easily removed from the organism; however, the oxidation of silicon will form a solid, because the silicon dioxide has just formed At that time, a crystal lattice will be formed, so that each silicon atom is surrounded by four oxygen atoms, instead of each molecule being separated like carbon dioxide. Disposal of such solid materials will bring a lot to the breathing process of silicon-based life. Big challenge.
However, some people have questioned that "creators" can "innovate" their energy collection methods when creating such biological systems!
This kind of organism "eats" two (or multiple) substances needed to produce energy at the same time and stores them separately in the body. These two (or more) substances may not be gases at all.
After the waste containing silicon compounds is generated, it can also be composed of "blood" composed of phosphoric acid (or active substances such as hydrogen fluoride or substances that react with silicon to produce liquids or gases) and blood vessels with particularly stable chemical properties to form an internal circulation Although this circulatory system is not silicon-based, it is possible.
It seems that life without a respiratory system is also possible and is also feasible for carbon-based life, but obviously this form is obviously inefficient, because carbon-based life chose 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 many compounds with left-right characteristics like carbon. As long as it is a life form, it must collect, store and use energy from the external environment.
In carbon-based organisms, the most basic compound that stores energy is carbohydrates. In carbohydrates, carbon atoms are linked into a chain by a single bond, and a series of oxidation steps on carbohydrates controlled by an enzyme releases energy and waste produces water and carbon dioxide.
These enzymes are large and complex molecules that catalyze specific reactions according to the shape of the molecule and left-handedness. Here, left-handedness is due to the asymmetry of the carbon contained in the molecule, which makes the molecule appear left-handed or right-handed. Most carbon-based organisms show this feature, and it is this feature that enables enzymes to recognize and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms.
However, silicon has not been able to produce a large number of compounds with left-hand and right-hand characteristics like carbon, which also makes it difficult to become a supporting element for a large number of interconnected chain reactions required for life. That is, it cannot recognize and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms like carbon-based life, and release stored energy.
In addition, the scientists of Imperial Biological Research have been devoted to searching for silicon-based life for a long time, and the Empire is currently in the prosperous star domains such as the source of flood light and the source of stars, and it has not been found in the previously acquired space life. Silicon-based life!
So scientists have determined that silicon-based life should not exist, because theory and practice have so far proved that these lives are impossible.
However, when the facts were in front of him, Liu Yanze was taken aback, and the whole person became very excited. The traditional silicon-based life has seen too much. I did not expect to see the legendary silicon-based life. As a scientist in biological research, this is tantamount to great news!
"It was hard to believe when I first started, but it is true, and you are even more surprised when you look at their genetic structure!"
He Jinghao is not surprised at the realization of Liu Yanze, because all bioscientists were surprised when they knew this, including himself, it was hard to believe at first!
"Triple-helix structure? Oh my god, how can this happen, and looking at the structure diagram, it is a triple-helix structure composed of two carbon-based and one silicon-based!"
Liu Yanze continued to watch and was surprised again!
The traditional genetic composition is all double helix structure diagrams. This has been recognized by countless scientists as an irreversible iron law. But today, once again, the scientific understanding of life is broken. Science is subverted and subverted. The universe is truly amazing!
"It's unbelievable! The universe is truly amazing!"
Liu Yanze murmured to himself that everything in front of him was beyond his own cognition. Instantly, he felt that what he knew and knew was a drop in the ocean. There are too many and too many secrets waiting to be explored by himself!
"We have studied the space organisms of multiple stellar galaxies obtained. All the space organism genes are all such silicon-based and carbon-based triple helix genes!"
"The silicon-based genes give these creatures the ability to survive and thrive in space. They can directly obtain energy from the light of stars through these skin-like things directly on the surface!"
"At the same time, silicon-based genes also allow them to devour metals and strengthen their bodies with metals, which is why as soon as our spacecraft enters the star, they will be attacked by these space creatures crazy!"
"Because this is determined by their genes, the silicon-based genes make them crazy to devour metal substances, because this can strengthen their bones, teeth, muscles, etc., so that they have a stronger competitiveness and can be better Inherit the gene! "
"You know that in ordinary space, metals are only available on asteroids, planets, and meteorites, so they will constantly drill into these celestial bodies, swallow a lot of metal-containing things, and then pass through the body. The chemical action of these metals refines these metals! "
"But in this case, they will digest their energy very much, and it will take a long time, and our spaceships are all metal materials, and they are refined, so they will frantically want to devour these excellent metals!"
"It's like our human pursuit of food!"
"The other two gene helixes, which are the same as ordinary carbon-based life, have given them the characteristics of their organisms, which can normally reproduce and have the characteristics of all organisms!"
While facing the gene on the big screen, He Jinghao explained to Liu Yanze and explained the reason why the spacecraft received a crazy attack from space creatures!
"So it turns out, I said why our spacecraft was attacked crazy as soon as it entered! The metal materials on our spacecraft are very precious necessities for these space creatures!"
"In this way, they are a hybrid of silicon-based and carbon-based life, but how did genes like them evolve?"
Liu Yanze nodded, and then began to study the evolutionary origin of these space creatures!
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