4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 9 Stem Cells
In fact, Lynn thought about this problem more than once.
Each type of its cells has a certain number. If all of them die, how can they be owned again?
Do the same thing again as before?For example, let cells engulf the lysate again to evolve acid-injectors?
But why cone-shaped cells evolved, Lin still does not understand.
But the point is not here. The point is that there must be such troublesome steps to get them again?
Lynn doesn't think so.
Lynn will find a way.
Thinking of this, Lin's diggers have eaten half an amoeba, and the number of digger cells has surged, reaching 699.
Lin began to implement its ideas, the first is the storage of energy and food.Lynn began to try to make a full eater, and the digger who was about to split continued to eat, and prevented it from splitting.
How to stop division?Lin also did not know that the splits were generated on her own, so Lin only kept controlling it in her mind and prohibited it from doing things that did not conform to Lin ’s ideas.
Seems to be successful. The digger did not split, but continued to eat amoeba corpses there.
Next, for storage, Lynn tried to stop it from digesting food, but left the food in the body.
Successfully, the food in the digger body was not digested, but was piled up in one place.
Unexpectedly so simple, Lin felt a little happy.
Next, Lin let the cell keep eating, digesting only the part needed for her activities, and the extra is not used for division, but is stored in the body, which also leads to the body size of the cell. The bigger it is, after eating it for a while, it almost has twice as many other cells.
However, storing these foods also causes this cell to become very inflexible, slow to move, and even sawing food becomes difficult to perform.
This will make it difficult to even eat, but this problem ca n’t be simpler for Lin, just let other cells help it, use ordinary diggers to help the food storage cell to collect food, and this cell Just need to be responsible for eating.
Slowly, this cell produced interesting changes.
As only eating and not working continued, the sawtooth of its outer membrane began to slowly disappear, Lin knew that this phenomenon was called degradation.
At the same time, its size became very large, almost three times that of other digger cells, and the fragments of the amoeba stored in it were also broken down, but instead of digested, it was converted into a water-like, but But a more viscous liquid.
Lynn knew that these liquids were called oils.
This cell converts the food you eat into oil and stores it in the body. These oils are easy to carry. It seems to contain higher energy and occupy less space, which is better than storing food directly.
Lin didn't know how they were formed. This wasn't controlled by Lin, but by the cell itself.
Lin is not 100% in control of cells. Some activities such as division are performed by cells. The oil is also made by them. It seems that there are still some deep mysteries in the cells. What Lin does not know .
With the gradual increase in wisdom, Lin can fully grasp all this.
Lynn gave this cell a name—the depositor.
Lin can also cause the store to split, but the new cells that the store splits are free of oil, and need to eat food to convert it into oil.
It's a good feeling, as long as there are more, then you are not afraid of being hungry, but you can't have too many of these cells, after all, you can't fight, and the speed of action is very slow.
Eating continues ... Soon after, the amoeba ’s body is only about 10% left, Lin ’s cell community has almost recovered to its original number, and the number of storers has also reached 30, with a lot of fat in their body. It can make Lin's community move a long distance without eating.
But what Lin wants most now is to regain the acid injector and cone cells.
Lin first tried to make the digger evolve into one of these two, using the old method, constantly thinking in his mind to make this cell become like that.
But to no avail, it is still the cells that are excavated from the cells.
Ke Lin didn't give up, it continued to experiment, for example, let the digger do something like a cone cell, or simply try to squeeze a cell into a cone with other cells.
Of course, they all failed. At the end, Lin felt that her method was stupid ...
But Lynn hasn't stopped letting them evolve in her thoughts. Eventually, a cell responded to it.
That is the basic cell, which is the original cell, which has no function at all.
This kind of cell can only come from the only cell with vision: the observer divides.
The observer has never participated in any activities, so it retains its basic appearance except for vision, but the cells it splits have no vision.
These cells are called basic cells by Lin, and they usually evolve into digger soon after working with the digger, but this time, this cell has received the signal from LIN before it has time to become a digger.
Just like a miracle, this cell begins to grow slowly after digesting the food that has just been eaten, and then grows a cone-shaped long mouth like a cone-shaped cell, which is covered with spiral serrations ... …
It is exactly the same as the original cone cell.
Then Lin tried to let the basic cells evolve into acid-injectors, and the result was very simple.
This is the case, that is to say, although the basic cells have no function, they will evolve?
But can it evolve into something else?
Lin thought so, it tried to evolve the basic cells into amoeba or strange cells.
……no response.
It seems that only the cells belonging to the Lynn community can change the basic cells. They do not have any evolutionary ability, but record this evolutionary information.
But how are they recorded?Is it related to the observer watching all the time?
Lin did not know, but now the main problem has been solved, Lin feels very happy.
Next, go to the vast world again and explore all the unknown things!
Amoeba has eaten everything, with 1233 cells, Lin swims into the endless dark blue ...
Lin has no goal. In this dark blue, she can't see any goal, but there are some things that attract Lin.
That is warmth.
Swiming in this direction all the time, Lin can feel more and more that she has got rid of the previous cold, and the water is getting warmer and more comfortable.
This direction seems to be above.
The closer it is, the water will look brighter and warmer. Lynn speeds up and swims. The warmth seems to bring power to its cell community, which is completely opposite to the cold curling feeling Comfortable.
At this moment, the observer swimming in the front position found fresh food.
Above Lyn's community, numerous purple creatures appeared.
They have an oval shape, and the body is covered with dense cilia, only about half the size of Lynn's cells, but their number is very large.
Most of them are full of the field of view that Lynn Observer can see.
According to preliminary calculations, it is probably over 10,000.
This is another type of cell. Lynn doesn't know what they are called, so she simply called the simplest name 'purple cell'.
These purple cells don't care about the appearance of Lin's colony. Even if Lin's cells are close to them, they will not attack and have no reaction.
The warm place that Lin wanted to go to was in the same direction.
In this case, then look at it in the past.