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"Hey, Lord Dragon God, you actually know such a thing?"

Song Gangjiang looked at Long Shencheng and didn't feel a little surprised.

"Well, after being a high school student for more than ten years, I expected something like this to happen. Well, it's nothing."

Song Gang Jiang shook his head.

"By the way, my current identity is 'Matsuoka E', so forget the name Shimazaki Yuuki~"

"I understand, Swimming Club Manager Matsuoka E-san."

Matsuoka Jiang pouted and looked at Long Shencheng: "Okay, then our top student, what is your purpose in coming here to expose my identity?"

"There is no purpose, we just want to use the chairman's privileges to establish a special class."

"That's it... but I'm sorry, the school has been completely taken over by the United States, so if you come to me now... it won't have any effect."

Matsuoka Jiang shook his head with regret.

"In that case, excuse me for bothering you."

Long Shencheng nodded and prepared to leave.

"Hey, Dragon God-kun, is this what Catherine-chan wants you to do?"

"That's right."

"Oh~"

After hearing Long Shencheng's answer, Matsuoka Jiang nodded thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, Long Shencheng, who already knew that all this work was useless, returned to the student union room.

Catherine was sitting here holding a large stack of documents at this time, without raising her head.

"Matsuoka Jiang has admitted her identity, but she can do nothing about this matter now. The affairs of our school have been fully taken over by the United States."

"Don't talk about this yet—let's look at this first."

Catherine threw a paper to Long Shen Cheng.

"This is?"

"The study of a social nature."

Catherine said: "It started as a small experiment by the students in the school district, but hidden behind it is a good thing."

"Social research? Well, I heard that Ark University often conducts such research."

Long Shencheng didn't know why, but he still opened the paper and took a look.

Although it is a document from college, it seems that it is not a problem at all for this person.

"Oh? An experiment about bees?"

The experiment in this article is a small experiment on 1,000 newly born bee larvae. Half of them are a milder subspecies of Apis mellifera, the Italian honey bee with the scientific name apis-mellifera-ligustica. Most of them are beekeepers.

People breed this kind of bee; the other half is apis-mellifera-scutellata, which has a similar genetic makeup to Apis mellifera. This is a subspecies of Apis mellifera originated in Africa, but this guy has a more famous name-killer bee.

.

The two subspecies are almost indistinguishable in appearance, but the latter is far more aggressive than the former when it comes to defending its territory. Kick an Italian honey bee's nest and a hundred bees may attack you; kick one.

In a killer bee's nest, you may be stung a thousand times or more. For a normal person, you will die after about 2,000 stings.

A total of 1,000 young bees were marked on their backs. Finally, the experimenters replaced the two groups of newborn bees into a hive of another subspecies. In other words, the killer bees would enter a colony of gentle bees.

Among them, the gentle bees will enter the colony of killer bees.

That's probably what happened.

"That's interesting, but won't these bees be rejected?" Long Shencheng murmured.

"Well, you don't have to worry about this. If you transfer the young bees to another bee colony on the first day they emerge, then that bee colony will treat them as their own."

"Hmm...are the habits of these bees affected by the environment?"

When Long Shencheng saw the back, he already knew what happened.

"Yes, the killer bees have learned the gentleness of the Italian bees, and the Italian bees can also inherit the violent nature of the killer bees, that's pretty much it."

"Is it a change in the environment? Or is it that a hidden part of the gene has been activated?"

The Vice President is thinking.

"The activity level of genes can be strong or weak, just like being controlled by a knob. Most of the cells in your body contain all of your genes, but only a small number of genes are active in any cell at any time.

state, releasing chemical messages that affect cellular activity. This varying intensity of gene activity is called gene expression and determines how your body performs most of its functions."

Catherine closed one eye and looked at the vice president: "By the way, this was research done by Hive Lab ten years ago."

"Sometimes the turning of these knobs corresponds to basic biological events, such as when you grow tissue inside your mother's body, enter puberty, or stop growing. Other times, gene activity increases in response to changes in your environment.

Or weakened. As a result, specific genes are activated to fight infection or heal your wounds - or they may go wrong.

Do something wrong and give you cancer or high fever to fry your brain. Changes in gene expression can make you thinner or fatter, or make you different from your twin brother... With this in mind, practical

It’s not your genes that determine who you are, it’s your gene expression. And gene expression differs depending on your life experiences. Isn’t that interesting?”

"..."

Long Shencheng was very sensitive. At this time, he had already noticed something.

"Are you talking about...this disaster?"

"Huh?"

Catherine was stunned for a moment.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that this is really the case.

Speaking of which, the research results just now...well, it seems that part of them is one of the truths about this disaster.

Speaking of which, couldn't it be said that the paper he handed over to Long Shencheng was the real culprit of this disaster?

Uh, coincidence, this must be a coincidence!

"Ahem, that's not what I meant. Look at this."

Catherine threw the second paper to Long Shen Cheng.

"The laboratory has put forward many opinions based on the above-mentioned student theories, but the direction of our research today is not that, but the environment."

"environment?"

"Yes, environment. In many cases, the environment may indeed drastically change the activity of some genes, but it is generally believed that, except for a few special circumstances, the environment can generally only enhance or weaken the activity of a few genes at a time. But this paper

But there is suspicion from the other side: the environment can influence 'large tracts of genes or even the entire genome' -

—And a person's social environment may also exert a particularly powerful influence. Simply put, who you hang out with and the behavior of the people you hang out with will significantly affect what your genes are telling you.

Jiangshan, how can you be speechless - and your personality will also change because of it. Well, to put it simply, if you are close to red, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black."

Because it is related to Japan, it is good to find an ancient Chinese proverb that can be used.

"The laboratory repeated this experiment and did a gene array comparison, and the results... were shocking." Catherine said, "For those 'hijacked' bees, life in their new home has indeed changed their entire life. Block' gene activity. If you compare their gene expression array data with a group of bees raised with the same kind, you can see a significant change at a glance: hundreds of genes in the array are all different colors. The hive The transfer between bees not only caused differences in the behavior of bees, but also caused their genes to change their working status on a large scale."

Seeing Long Shencheng who was reading the article with a frown, Catherine smiled meaningfully: "Moreover, no matter which subspecies they are, the array data of the adopted bees also changes with the array data of the bees who adopted them as they grow older. It's getting more and more similar. Many of those genes that are 'on' or 'off' are known to affect behavior; some of them are related to aggression."

"Indeed, from the paper, it appears that the behavior of bees has also changed, and their temperaments have become the same as those of their nestmates. It seems that the genome does not need to change its coding to make the animal resemble another subspecies. "

Long Shencheng couldn't help but look at Catherine with sharp eyes: "If we go one step further, we can even say that they have almost become another kind of bees."

"That's it. Moreover, this technology now has a new term, called 'epigenetics'."

The term "epigenetics" used by Catherine is English.

"Epigics? It's indeed appropriate."

"Yes, the literal meaning of this word refers to anything that can change the function of a gene without changing the actual DNA sequence."

Research is not limited to bees, but also humans.

These researchers are interested in looking at long-term interactions between genes and the environment: how starvation suffered by pregnant Dutch women during World War II affected the gene expression and behavior of their offspring; or whether mother rats diligently licked and groomed their pups. , how it will change the DNA helix of the offspring, thereby affecting the anxiety level of these young mice in their future lives.

In the summary of the paper, there is this sentence: "Our social life can change our genetic expression at a speed, magnitude and depth that have not been noticed before."

"Why did we evolve the way we did? The most likely answer is: Organisms that respond quickly to rapidly changing social environments are more likely to survive. Such organisms don't have to wait to evolve better genes at the species level. Maybe you don't know, but not long ago immunologists also made an interesting discovery: in the conventional way - waiting for natural selection to select genes that are resistant to specific pathogens - adapting to new pathogens is too slow to fight against rapidly changing Pathogen environment. Instead, the immune system exploits genetic networks that can respond quickly and flexibly to threats."

Hearing Catherine's words, Long Shencheng slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed to have seen through something.

"Okay, I already know all this. So, what is your purpose in telling me these papers...?"

"I was just wondering...if we inserted some ordinary people into these carriers...what would be the result?" Catherine said.

"Inserting the ordinary into the abnormal...?"

"Yes, these anomalies are likely to have personality and psychological changes due to changes in brain structure. From some perspectives, these guys are not even human anymore - but they are indeed very interesting.

Isn’t it?”

Catherine said: "If this is the case, if we insert some ordinary people into it and then combine it with some gene therapy, what kind of changes will there be... I am very much looking forward to it."

"Are we using our students as experimental subjects?"

Long Shencheng frowned.

"Look at it this way, I want to see how these man-made 'abnormalities' can behave. And when certain genes in their bodies are activated or change, what changes will occur in these people...

…I’m looking forward to these.”

"...But how are you going to do it?"

Long Shencheng asked again.

"Ah, this is a business secret. Speaking of which, what are Long Shencheng's plans after graduation? I would be very happy if you would be my secretary or assistant!"

"I'm sorry, I will choose to continue my studies and finish my Ph.D. in one go, so Miss Catherine Edson, you have given up!"

"Eh? You've actually figured out my identity!"

Not only did Long Shencheng see through the identity of the school chairman's daughter, he also saw through Catherine's identity.

"How did you guess my identity?"

"At first, I had some doubts because of your appearance, but after your performance just now, I confirmed all this - I'm afraid that the US military is no longer a problem for you, so you don't care.

What about the special class, but it’s like now, figuring out what to do next?”

Indeed, the plans Catherine mentioned should be after the special class was established.

However, Catherine's current performance proves to Long Shencheng that even without Matsuoka Jiang's help, none of this is a problem.

"I thought what my father told me was false. It turns out that you are really Miss Catherine Edson, Catherine!"

At this time, the manager of the swimming club, or the daughter of the chairman, Song Gang Jiang, had already walked in.

"Really, I just revealed my identity to the US military not long ago, how come you all know it all of a sudden..."

Catherine was speechless.

Now that everything has been exposed, wouldn't things suddenly stop being interesting?

…

My hand slipped yesterday, so the last change is below yesterday's update. Yesterday was a 5k chapter.

This is a two-in-one chapter!

By the way, I've been having a lot of trouble lately, and I'm going to write a side chapter about Infinity Squad being introduced into this world. Do you have any objections? (To be continued.) (Go...)