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Chapter 240, Silicon-based life?

On the "Ocean 2" space warship, when the last team dragged the broken spaceship back, everyone who saw it couldn't help but take a long breath!

The advanced spacecraft made by the empire is specially used for scientific investigation. Even small spacecraft has very advanced technology. As a shell material, its hardness has reached the limit of ordinary materials. In addition to materials created from an atomic perspective, these materials are the best!

But now, almost every ten small spacecraft is injured!

The spacecraft of the 8th Team, the least injured, was bitten by space creatures. As for the worst teams, the 2nd, 6th, and 9th Teams, it is thankful to the rescue team to rescue in time, otherwise they would have died in the mouth of the space creatures!

As for their spaceship, it was already bitten at this time and was completely out of reach. Some even had the teeth of space creatures, some wreckage, etc. on it!

"We must immediately study the space creatures we have acquired, 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 it!"

"In addition, I don't believe it if the spacecraft made of atomic materials is sent out. Is their teeth powerful or our atomic materials powerful? We must catch some living space creatures back!"

When Liu Yanze saw the people who were in danger, he was relieved and gave two orders in succession!

At the Biological Research Center on "Ocean 2", Liu Yanze wore protective clothing and began to participate in the research of space creatures. You should know that Liu Yanze is a young scientist in contact with biology and cosmic astronomy!

"Yanze, come and take a look. Their genes are so strange!"

Seeing Liu Yanze coming, He Jinghao, another young scientist at the Institute of Biology, immediately asked Liu Yanze to go there because he encountered a problem he had never encountered in biology!

"What's wrong?" Liu Yanze heard He Jinghao's words and immediately went over!

"Look, this is the genetic map we have dissected the biological samples obtained here and seized them. Take a closer look!"

He Jinghao pointed to a huge computer realistic device and said that something similar to a genetic map on the display screen is being continuously improved. It is obvious that scientists are drawing the genes of space creatures here!

The essence and everything of organisms are actually determined by genes, so in more cases, biological research is a study of biological genes. As long as you understand all the genes in the organism, it can be said that this kind of organism has been thoroughly studied!

Hearing He Jinghao's words, Liu Yanze began to look at the genetic map carefully. As a biological research scientist as outstanding as himself, He Jinghao's words are naturally aimless!

"Oh my God! How is it possible? Silicon-based life?"

Soon, Liu Yanze exclaimed, looking incredible!

The so-called concept of silicon-based life appeared as early as the 19th century. In 1891, Julian Shennar, an astrophysicist at the University of Potsdam, discussed the possibility of the existence of silicon-based life in one of his articles. He was probably the first person to mention silicon-based life.

This concept was accepted by British chemist James Merson Reynolds. In 1893, he pointed out in a speech by the British Society for the Advancement of Science that the thermal stability of silicon compounds allows life based on it to survive in more complex environments.

Although the concept of silicon-based life was proposed very early and scientists have been committed to finding such a life, the possibility of silicon-based life is threatened by many defects.

When carbon is oxidized during the respiration of the earth's organisms, carbon dioxide gas will form, which is a waste substance that is easily removed from the organisms; however, the oxidation of silicon will form solids because lattices will form when silicon dioxide is first formed, so that each silicon atom is surrounded by four oxygen atoms, rather than the fact that each molecule is free individually like carbon dioxide. Disposing such solid substances will bring great challenges to the respiration process of silicon-based life.

However, some people question that the "creator" can "innovate" in their energy harvesting methods when creating such biological systems!

This organism simultaneously "eats" two (or multiple) substances required to generate energy and store them separately in the body. These two (or more) substances can be completely non-gas.

After the waste of silicon compounds is produced, an internal circulatory system can be composed of "blood" composed of phosphoric acid (active substances such as hydrogen fluoride or substances that react specifically with silicon to produce liquids or gases) and blood vessels with particularly stable chemical properties. Although this circulatory system is not silicon-based, it is possible.

It seems that life without a respiratory system is also possible and feasible for carbon-based life, but obviously this form is obviously inefficient because carbon-based life has chosen the form of breathing in order to adapt to nature on earth.

Some people believe that silicon may not produce many compounds with left-handed and right-handed characteristics like carbon. As long as it is in a life form, it must be collected, stored and utilized from the external environment.

In carbon-based organisms, the most basic compound that stores energy is carbohydrates. In carbohydrates, carbon atoms are connected into a chain by a single bond, and a series of oxidation steps of carbohydrates controlled by enzymes release energy, and waste produces water and carbon dioxide.

These enzymes are large and complex molecules that catalyze specific reactions according to the shape and left-handedness of the molecule. The left-handedness and right-handedness mentioned here is that the molecules have left-handedness or right-handedness due to the asymmetry of the carbon contained in the molecule. Most substances in carbon-based organisms show this feature. It is this feature that enables enzymes to identify and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms.

However, silicon fails to produce numerous compounds with left-handed and right-handed characteristics like carbon, which makes it difficult for it to become a supporting element for a large number of interconnected chain reactions required by life. That is, it cannot identify and regulate a large number of different metabolic processes in carbon-based organisms like carbon-based life, and release stored energy.

In addition, scientists in Imperial Biology have long been committed to finding silicon-based life, and the Empire has not found silicon-based life in the prosperous star domains such as the Floodlight Source and the Star Source, and even in the space life they have obtained before!

So scientists have determined that silicon-based life should not exist, because theory and practice have proved so far that these lifes cannot exist.

But when the facts were in front of him, Liu Yanze was shocked, and at the same time he became extremely excited. He had too many knowledge of traditional silicon-based life. Unexpectedly, he could see the legendary silicon-based life. As a scientist in biological research, this was tantamount to a great good news!

"I had a hard time believing it at the beginning, but that's the case, and you're even more surprised when you look at their genetic structure!"

He Jinghao was not surprised at Liu Yanze's monetization at all, because all biological scientists were surprised when they knew this, and it was difficult for him to believe it at first!

"Three-helix structure? Oh my God, how could this happen? And looking at the structural diagram, it is a triple-helix structure composed of two carbon bases and one silicon base!"

Liu Yanze continued to watch and was surprised again!

The traditional genetic composition is all double helix structural diagram, which has been recognized by countless sciences as an unsurpassed iron law. However, today it once again breaks the sciences' understanding of life. Science is indeed subverted and subverted, and the universe is indeed full of wonders!

"It's so unbelievable! The universe is indeed full of wonders!"

Liu Yanze murmured to himself, everything in front of him was really beyond his own cognition. In an instant, he felt that what he knew and what he knew was a drop in the ocean. There were too many secrets in the universe waiting for him to explore!

"We have conducted research on space organisms in multiple stellar systems we obtained. All the genes of space organisms are this kind of silicon-based and carbon-based triple-helix gene!"

"The silicon-based genes give these creatures the ability to survive and reproduce in space. They can directly obtain energy from the light of the star directly through these skin-like things on the surface!"

"At the same time, the silicon-based genes also give them to swallow metals and use metals to strengthen their body's energy. This is why our spacecraft will be attacked by these space creatures when they enter the stars!"

"Because this is determined in their genes, the silicon-based genes make them crazily swallow metal substances, because this can strengthen their bones, teeth, muscles, etc., so that they have stronger competitiveness and better pass on the genes!"

"You must know that in normal space, metals are only available on asteroids, planets, and meteorites, so they will constantly drill into these celestial bodies to swallow a large amount of metal-containing things, and then extract these metals through chemical effects in the body!"

"But this will greatly digest their energy and take a long time. Our spacecraft are all metal materials, and they have been refined, so they want to swallow these excellent metals in a crazily way!"

"This is like our human pursuit of food!"

"The other two gene spirals that are the same as ordinary carbon-based life give them the characteristics of organisms, which can reproduce normally and have the characteristics of all organisms!"

While looking at the genes on the big screen, He Jinghao explained to Liu Yanze and told him the reason why the spaceship received a crazy attack from space creatures!

"So that's it. I'm talking about why our spacecraft is attacked crazy as soon as it enters it! The metal materials on our spacecraft are very precious necessities for these space creatures!"

"In this way, they are considered a mixture of silicon-based and carbon-based life, but how did genes like them evolve?"

Liu Yanze nodded, and then began to study the evolutionary origins of these space creatures!

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