Chapter 1292 The Evolution of Genes

There is a very strange legend between humans and orangutans. Some people claim that the genomes of humans and orangutans are 99% similar, but this legend is not true.

But the knowledge point Gu Qing received has another key understanding, that is, as primates, orangutans are more keenly aware of environmental problems than humans and express them in real-life activities.

So after establishing the special equipment research and development center, Gu Qing guided the special flight equipment pilot function research laboratory to develop step by step in the direction of animal orangutans.

The ultimate goal is to let orangutans live on the moon base with the early astronauts, so that the aerospace department, biomedicine department, life medicine department and other highly confidential departments can work with the Titan department to design a system that can ensure that ordinary humans can stay on the moon. Normal life, normal technical system products.

Looking at the organs of some male orangutans in the life-sustaining cradle, Gu Qing asked the person in charge to notify other idle scientific researchers to gather.

He will not disturb those R&D personnel who are immersed in scientific research work, because if it affects the progress of the other party's project or even interrupts some fantastic ideas, it will be a painful torture that all scientific researchers of Jiuzhou Technology cannot accept.

After all the idle professors, masters and Ph.D.s gathered in the laboratory, Gu Qing looked around and saw some people running out of breath, and said with concern: "The body is the capital of the revolution. In our daily life and work, You must take good care of your body, exercise more, and pay attention to a balanced diet.”

After hearing this, the few R&D personnel who were still out of breath immediately straightened their chests and began to take deep breaths, not wanting to leave a bad impression on this top star in the scientific research community.

After everyone's breathing stabilized, Gu Qing picked up a pen on the test table next to him and tapped the spiral genome behind him.

He said: "Actually, from the perspective of the structure of the genome, we humans, like orangutans, are highly complex primates. Unlike the simple genomes of simple eukaryotes like yeast, our genomes are very complex, even complex. There are a lot of designs out there that seem useless, but that’s all they look good.

Now the academic community has begun to demonstrate to the public the various purposeful editing and combinatorial regulation of coding genes. It not only assists a limited number of genes to achieve quite complex expression patterns, but also deliberately creates genes that have special effects on certain environments and diseases. .

We are all scholars in related fields, and we all know that for complex living organisms, genes are not content that can be edited and edited at will like videos and copywriting.

Just like it was difficult for us to understand at first, why our human genome only has more than 20,000 genes, which is only a little more than those of insects, but it can achieve more functions than animals with the same number of genomes.

Moreover, according to the current genetic testing data, the genome sequence similarity of all known major organisms in the world in Blue Star is roughly 70 to 90 percent with the human genome.

Three percent of the genome sequences of humans and orangutans are incomparable. According to observational data obtained through current scientific and technological means, only about 70 percent of the genome sequences are similar, and they are not identical.

Please note that what I have always said is similar and similar. I have always had great interest in biomedicine, genetics, neural signals and other subjects, so you can rest assured that I am not a layman who comes to chant sutras, nor am I here to disturb you. experimental project. "

Throw out some knowledge points, and then reveal a little bit of your knowledge reserves.

Gu Qing noticed that the cautious looks in the eyes of many R&D personnel present had weakened a lot, but they had not disappeared yet.

So he continued: "The difference of about 30% allows us and orangutans to develop into two civilizations.

From the perspective of evolution from orangutans to humans, from monkeys to humans, and even from the perspective of the evolution of immortal fish, turtles, immortal jellyfish and other species in the sea, nature’s survival mode of natural selection has allowed the genes of life to never stop evolving. .

After our company's bionic mechanical prostheses began to be tested on humans, our researchers found that ordinary people who have been trained to use smart products for a long time have slightly more mutated brain genes than ordinary people who rarely use smart electronic products, and This part of the gene mutation has no side effects so far.

There is a concept of "primate deceleration" in academic circles, which believes that the speed of genetic evolution of our primates is slowing down, and even some functions are degenerating.

One of our official cooperation projects with Daxia is to work with other research teams to deduce a phylogenetic tree at the whole genome level of modern primates.

In the deduction of this developmental tree, some scholars have proposed that the most recent common ancestor of our primates should have appeared about 64.95 to 68.29 million years ago. This interval coincides with the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.

It is believed that the early radiation of primates may have been affected by the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event. Even when the research team reconstructed the chromosome structure from the common ancestor of primates to the modern human genome, they found that the ancestors of primates were closely related to our modern Humans share conserved karyotypic characteristics.

At the same time, the research team also found that different primate ancestors had different levels of genome rearrangement rates, and an overall increase in the number of genomic element variation levels was found in the ancestral branch of the great apes.

For example, our genes for brain capacity, body shape, camouflage hair, etc. all have varying degrees of variation.

"From the perspective of biological evolution, the higher the level of the species, the larger its brain capacity. This proves that the brain is not only important in general subjects, but also has a direct relationship with the various functions that each species can achieve.

The African ape has a brain capacity of only 452 cubic centimeters, while modern humans have a brain capacity of 1,000 to 1,500 cubic centimeters. The relative brain capacity of humans is more than three times that of apes, allowing us to have more thinking ability.

Biological evolution is not the guidance of God, but the efforts of human beings, growing step by step, one pair of gene mutations, and a little bit of brain capacity improvement.

For tens of millions of years, we humans have been racing with God and evolving.

Even with the blessing of various intelligent devices and neural conversion devices, this evolution has not stagnated, but accelerated."

As Gu Qing narrated, more and more researchers' eyes became deep and excited.

Scientists are also human beings. They are not stones without emotional fluctuations.

Looking at the various experimental samples around them, their minds can no longer be calm.

But at this moment, Gu Qing suddenly snapped his fingers.

Said——