Chapter 88: Hybridization
"After removing the cell walls of the lightning attribute and fire attribute cells and observing them under an optical microscope, the cells of the two types of flowers gradually merged into one within thirty seconds. It is reasonable to speculate that flowers of different attributes can hybridize.
However, when a pollination experiment was conducted using the male flower of the Thunder Attribute Deception Flower as the male parent and the female flower of the Fire Attribute Deception Flower as the female parent, the two were unable to produce offspring. The most likely reason is that the pollen of the Thunder Attribute Deception Flower contains the thunder element.
Find a Fire-attributed God's Eye owner to cooperate with the experiment, and use the fire element to cover up the lightning element in the lightning-attributed Trick Flower pollen. Maybe it will be able to successfully pollinate the mother plant..."
The above is the main information conveyed by Haroldt’s new topic. Of course, there is no concept of cells on the continent of Teyvat, so Haroldt wrote another paper discussing what cells are.
In fact, even on Blue Star, there is no unified concept of cells. The cells that Blue Star people learn in junior high and high school are the most common term.
Harold had no intention of perfecting the biological theory system of the continent of Teyvat. The ultimate goal of writing this paper was to increase the rationality of his new topic and increase the probability of the new topic being approved by the Council of the Decrees.
Therefore, he did not write about this concept in too much detail, but simply described it as the basic structure that makes up living organisms and said that this structure can be seen under a microscope.
The natural way to remove the cell walls from the cells of the flower is to use enzymatic hydrolysis, but Teyvat has no concept of this. Harold can only write another paper, based on his own experiment of using cellulase to degrade the cell walls of the flower cells, to prove that cellulase can remove plant cell walls.
As for what the components dissolved by cellulase are called, what is the name of the plant cells after the cell wall is removed, and what is the name of the process of removing the cell wall...
And so on, Haroldt didn't want to explain any more. If he wanted to write, he could write dozens of papers just around these things.
But even though he omitted so much, this new project with two papers attached was still nearly eighty pages, and it was still handwritten.
I really don't know who made the rule that project documents must be handwritten. If they are lost, I don't know who to complain to.
So after Harold finished writing, he went to Dolly's copy shop in Port Omos and made several copies of all the documents just in case.
Zachariah walked around the office with documents in his hand, a smile on his face: "If we can really crossbreed the flowers with different properties, maybe we can breed flowers with higher honey production, or flowers with special properties.
If you can reduce their danger to zero in this way, then when the Order assesses your subject level, your subject level will be able to be raised by this much—"
Zacharias placed his palm flat on his navel and raised it to his eyes.
Harold: "Really? The teacher thinks my project can be submitted directly?"
Harold said this on the surface, but this result was completely within his expectations.
The different attributes of the Deception Flowers belong to the same elemental life form, and their somatic cell fusion degree is extremely high. Logically, there should be no reproductive isolation between them, but they cannot hybridize.
It's unbelievable on the blue planet, but the continent of Teyvat...
When in doubt, he turned to elemental mechanics. So after three failed experiments, he immediately thought that the problem lay with the elemental force contained in the pollen. Now, this guess has also been recognized by his mentor.
"Let me take another look. These two papers are too valuable. Even if I were your advisor, I couldn't give you any better advice..."
Zacharias put the research documents on the hybridization of the false flower aside, with an article on "The Concept of Cell" in his right hand and an article on "Research on the Degradation Effect of Cellulase on the Cell Wall of Broken Sweet Flower Cells" in his left hand, feeling both emotional and regretful.
After all, these proposed new concepts, so the value of these two papers could not be evaluated by him, a single mentor of the Yogacara school. It had to be evaluated by the Hepandas (a respectful title for senior scholars) of the Institute of Religious Affairs, no, it should be evaluated by six sages.
"Just one thing, you mentioned in your paper that 'plant cells can be observed using an optical microscope', do you have any specific photos?"
Zacharias pointed to a deliberately blank area in the paper text and asked, "You left a space specifically for attaching photos of cells and photos of the cell wall degradation process, right?"
"Yes, but right now I have no way to take a picture of the image under the microscope lens," said Harold.
That is, limited by the equipment, Zachariah nodded: “If this problem cannot be solved, you can choose to use hand-drawing.
When the sages evaluate the grades of your two papers, they will personally perform the experimental steps you wrote. As long as they can see what you described, the grade of your paper will not be low. "
That's so thoughtful.
Harold couldn't help thinking, but he said:
"Thanks for the advice, teacher, but I actually thought about how to solve this problem. I have come up with a solution and will be able to complete the photo soon."
"Great! If you can take the photo successfully, your paper will definitely have a much greater impact on the sage! Tell me your ideas now." Zachariah praised.
"My solution is to place the camera of the camera directly against the eyepiece of the microscope to shoot, but to use this method, the lens diameter of the camera must be similar to the diameter of the eyepiece.
But the models of cameras on the market are fixed, and I couldn’t find a suitable camera, so I paid someone to customize one, and I only had to wait for more than two months to get the device. ” Harold said.
Of course, this method will leave a black border on the photo, but it is the most cost-effective and time-saving solution.
Zacharias had no experience in this area, but he was very satisfied with Harold's initiative and rigorous attitude.
“Okay, okay, once you’ve added the photo and made a few extra copies of the documents, I’ll submit them for you, and then ask the Institute to re-certify your degree. You might soon become one of the youngest Hepatidas in the history of the Institute, and I’ll be the mentor who trained the youngest Hepatida.
Ha, Harold, you really make me proud. You are worthy of being my disciple. You really have the qualities of a great sage! This original document..."
Zachariah stroked the paper, feeling a little reluctant to hand over the "gold". "If you don't need it in the future, how about giving it to me as a collection?"
Ah, this... is against the rules. Even if I agree, those old-fashioned people in the Ordinance House will never agree, right?
Harold thought for a moment, organized his words, and said, "It's my pleasure. If the sages don't ask me to hand over the original documents, I will be happy to give them to the teacher."
After hearing this, Zacharias realized that his idea was too fanciful. He sighed, looked at the documents in his right hand, then at the documents in his left hand. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said, "Harold, I have a good idea. How about you rewrite these papers?!"
Harold: "...Ah?"
Listen, listen, is this human language?