Chapter 846, Parthenogenesis
The third chapter is here! Fortunately, we caught up! Not much to say, read and read.
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Fortunately, Wei Xiaobei's skin is tough enough, otherwise, his big toe might be chewed off.
When the remaining mutated creepers began to grow to several meters, their tender green leaves began to turn yellow.
Wei Xiaobei could feel the hunger from these mutated creepers, and then took out a large amount of pigs, cattle, goats and fish from the storage ring and put them into the water.
These things are the food waste that Wei Xiaobei sent people to buy from the island of King Liusnia.
Residents of the Kingdom of Rusnia do not have the habit of eating these offal. In addition, the weather here is always hot, and a large amount of sewage is easy to emit stench. Since the land of Rusnia exists in an island structure, in order to prevent pollution of the ocean, these The disposal of sewage has always been a difficult problem for those slaughterhouses in Rusnia.
Of course, there are also many fish farm owners who buy these offals at low prices and put them into their own fish farms in order to improve the nutrition level in the fish farms.
But this kind of practice can easily lead to marine life disasters such as red tides, so if caught by the sanitation department of the Kingdom of Rusnia, they will be severely punished.
In this way, the purchase of sewage is very easy. Wei Xiaobei only spent some shipping fees, and got more than a thousand tons of sewage garbage.
And these sewage wastes are perfectly suitable for use here.
Well, it just stinks a bit.
After Wei Xiaobei dumped hundreds of kilograms of sewage from the storage ring, the air in this small valley became unsavory, and a strong stench spread out to the surroundings, almost suffocating people.
But those mutated creepers are very fond of this stinky sewage. They desperately stretched their vines, plunged the ends of the vines into the sewage, and began to devour them crazily.
With the help of these launchings, the growth rate of the mutated ivy exploded surprisingly.
In two minutes, the ground where the mutant creeper was planted turned into a ground made up of vines, and countless vines were laid on the ground layer by layer. While devouring the water, it also launched a swift and violent attack on its own kind.
Well, by this time, the forms of these mutant creepers are somewhat different.
All the leaves of the whole body are transformed into spikes.
There are vines that are shortened and stand on the ground like a mallet, and there are vines whose leaves have not changed, but will secrete a kind of toxin. What surprised Wei Xiaobei even more is that there is a mutant creeper whose vines have degenerated to less than one meter length. And its attack weapon is to pull out the root system from the ground, and the roots that have become extremely tough can even cut off other vines of the same kind.
Under the radiation of Rocky's finger, these mutated creepers, which were originally mutated plants, mutated again.
However, during the period, there were still many mutated creepers whose genes collapsed, and their vines suddenly oozed yellow water as they grew, and all the leaves withered and fell to death in a few seconds.
After these mutated creepers each occupied a territory and entered a state of confrontation with each other, their number had been reduced to less than fifty.
You know, the number of mutated creeper seeds sown by Qianwei Xiaobei exceeds two thousand, but now there are only forty-seven plants left.
While their cannibalism played a major role here, so did the various breakdowns caused by radiation.
After the initial genetic mutation. These mutated creepers may have mutated before, and the mutation speed began to weaken. Wei Xiaobei ingested the genes several times against their attacks, observed the genetic mutation process, and found that the next mutation would take at least three hours. A new experiment was started.
And the material for this experiment is not the mutated creeper seeds, but the red meat crabs, yellow meat crabs and even various shrimps and shellfish that Wei Xiaobei caught in the gray world of Weijia Island.
These are all things, so Wei Xiaobei chose the beach closest to his fingertips. Thousands of crabs, shrimps, shellfish, etc. were put into the seawater.
What put into the seawater at the same time is a large amount of sewage.
This is also a helpless thing, in the sea near the small deserted island. All the algae are extinct. Although the nutrition of the seawater is still there, it is far from enough to support the variation of these creatures.
Soon the seawater became extremely dirty under the underwater pollution, those sea creatures were eating frantically in the seawater, and their bodies also mutated rapidly under the stimulation of radiation.
Wei Xiaobei didn't pay much attention to the changes in the appearance of these sea creatures. It's just that every once in a while, some genes will be ingested, which can be regarded as archived.
After all, during the mutation process of these creatures, there will be a substantial change in the genes, and this change can allow Wei Xiaobei to obtain a deeper genetic knowledge reserve.
In addition, Wei Xiaobei also threw some fresh meat from gray world monsters less than five meters away from his fingers.
Since these fresh meats are collected into the storage ring after the monster is slaughtered, the cells inside have a considerable degree of activity.
And under the super-intensity intense radiation, these meats whose cells have not completely died have also undergone drastic changes.
Some pieces of flesh grew black manes similar to hair, some flesh pieces grew teeth, hands and feet, and even eyes grew on a piece of flesh. In addition, there was no change in shape, but it had a strong A piece of meat with a corrosion effect can quickly digest the opponent just by lying on top of other pieces of meat.
Not long after, Wei Xiaobei was slightly pleasantly surprised to find that there was a group of strange-looking fleshy creatures in front of him.
Well, chunks of meat are not enough to describe them.
To be precise, after a considerable part of these pieces of meat were eliminated, they were transformed into individual living creatures.
Of course, this elimination rate is somewhat higher than those of those mutant creepers.
There were tens of thousands of pieces of meat, but less than a hundred survived in the end.
Wei Xiaobei caught these fleshy creatures with great excitement, and began to ingest the genes one by one.
You know, at this distance, it is already a miracle to be able to survive so many creatures at once.
Typically, the mortality rate is 100 percent.
Of course, this may be due to the meat of the gray world monster.
And the next mutation caused the number of surviving creatures to continue to decrease. In the end, Wei Xiaobei had to move these surviving creatures to a place farther away from the fingers, lest such precious experimental materials explode like this.
After a while, Wei Xiaobei went to the mutated creeper area and the seaside area, ingested the genes, and recorded the experimental data.
In this way, in the following time, Wei Xiaobei continued to travel between the three locations, constantly ingesting genes, recording the continuous changes of these biological genes, and accumulating experimental data.
Three days later, in the early morning, Wei Xiaobei sat on a rock covered in stinky sweat, eating barbecue and drinking water, while looking at the strange creatures in the sea.
Well, in fact, while these creatures are mutating, it is also an evolutionary elimination process of survival of the fittest.
First of all, after receiving the radiation mutation, the organisms whose genetic integrity cannot be guaranteed will be the first to be genetically collapsed and eliminated.
Secondly, in the process of scrambling for food or killing each other, a group of creatures with weaker combat effectiveness, or no combat effectiveness, and insufficient escape ability will be eliminated.
And now, the ultimate test for these creatures has come.
give birth to!
If these creatures can reproduce normally, then they can be truly regarded as a unique species, rather than a deformed creature under a certain classification.
It has a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, its whole body is covered with scales, and its six legs crawl quickly close to the ground. A creature similar to a crocodile quietly climbed onto the beach from the sea.
Well, this creature was originally transformed from a shellfish. Of course, it is a bit weird that a shellfish can evolve into what it is now.
In particular, there are traces of electric light on its hair-like tail, which is even more weird.
You know, although that kind of shellfish is a kind of shellfish monster, its genes don't have electric current genes.
In other words, in this short period of three days, not only did this crocodile-like creature undergo tremendous changes in shape and size, but even some special abilities were also produced during the mutation.
It is also true that this crocodile-like creature is one of more than ten kinds of creatures that Wei Xiaobei is most concerned about.
After quickly digging out a deep pit, the crocodile-like creature laid fist-sized eggs in the deep pit.
After the spawning was over, the crocodile-like creature buried the pit, and then lay down beside it, unwilling to move again.
Not long after, a creature resembling a starfish and a crab quietly got into a cave on the bottom of the sea. After blocking the outside of the cave extremely firmly with its tentacles, it gave birth in the cave with peace of mind. egg.
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All these things may be due to the periodic effects of radiation on living things. In just half an hour, a considerable number of living things on the small deserted island have entered the mode of reproduction.
But Wei Xiaobei found that the reproductive mode of these creatures is basically parthenogenesis.
The so-called parthenogenesis means that the eggs of female organisms can develop into normal individuals without fertilization.
In fact, this kind of parthenogenesis is very common in nature, and many species have the ability of parthenogenesis.
Cucumbers in plants are a typical example, and they can bear fruit without pollination.
Aphids can give birth to small aphids when their buttocks are raised, and ants and bees also have this ability.
Advanced creatures, some sharks, some voles, etc., can reproduce without males, and females can reproduce on their own.
Of course, here, the most fundamental reason why these mutated creatures are parthenogenetic is that they have no second kind besides themselves.
The mutated creatures have all sorts of strange shapes, and under the action and selection of radiation, it is naturally impossible to produce two identical male and female creatures at the same time for pairing. (To be continued.)