Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 220 The Origin of Gene Lock
This made Yuanze think of Alison who framed him.

The genetic lock of their family is very similar to the genetic lock of the source beast race. Except for slight differences in development due to the different source power characteristics between individuals, everything else is basically the same.

"Then you also think that there is not much difference between humans and source beasts?"

"Yes, especially after we gained intelligence, our bodies are no different from humans."

"Then how did we, the source beasts, get our gene locks? Why do we have these abilities naturally?"

Ruisheng was stunned. For a moment, he didn't know how to answer this question. Then, he remembered that the newcomer in front of him was recommended by Ruiming, and he gritted his teeth and took out some reports:
"Although our technological level is not as good as that of humans, we still have some advantages in biotechnology. Take a look at this, this is the research conclusion our team has just reached."

Early life appeared in extremely harsh environments. These environmental pressures made it impossible for organisms to maintain stable traits for a long time, and they had to undergo random mutations to acquire adaptive genes.

Because of their strong adaptive potential, these genes can be expressed under specific conditions, but they become extremely unstable in non-extreme environments.

So during evolution, genetic locks were placed in heterochromatin regions of the genome, which are usually highly compacted and less easily transcribed regions of the genome.

Moreover, the mechanism of gene lock can be closely related to the dynamic regulation of epigenetics.

For example, changes in epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation, histone acetylation, methylation, and phosphorylation can affect the state of gene lock.

As a special form of energy, source force can directly affect these epigenetic marks, changing them from a silent state to an activated state, thereby unlocking the genes.

Under the stimulation of specific environment or source force, the state of heterochromatin changes, causing the gene lock to unlock, thereby activating the closed gene.

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"Our recent research has also discovered how the source force activates the gene lock. We haven't formed a report yet. You can watch the explanation in this video."

Yuanze was thoughtful after watching the video. This detailed introduction to the principles was very similar to the guidance he had received on using biomedical knowledge to strengthen his body.

"That's it, it should give me some inspiration."

"There's nothing I can do if you stay here any longer. I've shown you everything I can. I also believe in Ruiming, so you have to keep it a secret for Ruiming's sake."

Yuanze nodded, said goodbye, then left the institute and walked towards the dormitory.

"It's quite complicated, Astra, what do you think?"

"In this regard, the source beasts are indeed ahead of humans, and it cannot be found in the Mingtu database. I don't have any other opinions, but I can help you summarize the research results."

To sum up, there are just a few steps.

Step 1: Principle Perception and Quantum Resonance

The source force flows in the organism, first resonating with the quantum field in the cells, triggering micro-environmental changes in the gene lock area.

This step will be done automatically in the source beast.

Step 2: Triggering the quantum tunneling effect

Through the quantum tunneling effect, Source Force allows subatomic particles to pass through the energy barriers within the genome, changing the local configuration or chemical state of DNA, which is the first step in unlocking the gene lock.

Step 3: Epigenetic Regulation
The source force removes the DNA methylation marks in the gene lock region and changes the histone modification, making the chromatin structure loose and the gene region open, ready for activation.

Step 4: Chromatin remodeling and genome rearrangement

Under the action of source force, the chromatin structure is reshaped, the gene lock region is awakened from the "dormant" state, necessary rearrangements occur within the genome, and gene expression is initiated.

Step 5: Elimination of RNA interference

The source of power inhibits the RNA interference mechanism, releases the inhibition of the gene lock, and allows the gene to be transcribed and translated normally. Step 6: Systemic response and metabolic reprogramming

Source force amplifies cell signaling, reprograms metabolic processes, ensures energy and resource supply, and supports the high energy demands required for gene lock activation.

Step 7: Multi-gene network activation and phenotypic display
Multiple genes are activated simultaneously, resulting in significant phenotypic changes, such as enhanced physical strength, perception, or self-healing ability, ultimately demonstrating extraordinary abilities.

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"These steps take longer and are closer to the perspective of the source beasts. They are more suitable for this set."

"No, I just checked the detailed steps in the video. Except for the part involving the brain structure, the rest of the human body can be copied directly."

Yuan Ze didn't say anything. He didn't want to admit that humans were part of the source beasts. This would be a huge shock to anyone.

"I know what you're thinking, but from the perspective of biological evolution, both the source beasts and humans were animals before, and they all evolved from the same eukaryotic cell."

"No, you can't understand. I know the evolutionary history of organisms, and there is no superiority or inferiority between them. But the current situation is like two people from the same school betraying each other."

Astra frowned, she had learned empathy for some time and knew how to comfort others.

But it is limited to between people.

Humans and source beasts?

The gap was too big, and she was unable to keep up with Yuanze's thinking for a while.

"what do you want to say?"

"Do you remember lawyer Zhen Yan's defense of the humanoid monster?"

"I remember. I saw it, too."

"He mentioned the topic of how to deal with intelligent extraterrestrial life. However, humans are not even ready to get along with highly intelligent source beasts. They even use each other and kill each other in various ways."

Astra understood what Yuanze wanted to express.

The humanoid monsters have no special abilities, they simply help humans continue their happiness.

In the final judgment, he was ruthlessly destroyed by those people.

This is not just because those people want to destroy the evidence of their crime of creating monsters.

It is also because those people are afraid that human beings’ hatred for source beasts will be weakened, thus discovering the real contradiction.

How can those source beasts with special abilities coexist peacefully with humans? This is intolerable.

Especially since there are a large number of ordinary people among humans who do not have the talent for Yuanwu, they cannot accept it.

"So, accelerating the arrival of all the source warriors is the real way to gather the power of the entire Blue Planet and allow humans to break out of the universe."

"Yes, and those alien civilizations are too powerful. The entire Blue Planet is not even cannon fodder."

"Indeed, if you humans could also possess different gene lock abilities like the source beasts, society would function more efficiently."

This reminded Yuanze of a dream about the stars that he had a long time ago.

Everyone does their part, and together they fearlessly head toward the interstellar road.

(End of this chapter)