Chapter 69： Nature's Nature!

"The male bee in a colony, developed from an unfertilized egg, has only haploid chromosomes, but the spermatocyte of the male bee is not 0.5-fold chromosomal; it divides by special, pseudo-meiotic divisions' so it is still haploid."

Ms. Helen walked slowly toward the students below with her book in hand and high heels.

"The only role of a male bee in a colony is to mate, and mated males die immediately."

Removing the book from her face, a small smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"This male bee, in a sense, is also a parasite. "

While saying that, she glanced over to Peter's side.

Peter just listened to this beautiful teacher's lecture without showing any expression on his face.

"But that's not the focus of our lesson today, what we're learning is about phages."

She walked to Peter's side, stopped and added: "The process by which phages parasitize bacteria.

"A phage is just a mass of genetic material encased in a protein shell that lacks the materials and tools to replicate itself, but is able to inject itself into a bacterium and proceed to integrate its DNA into the bacterium's DNA.

Explaining the process of phage parasitization, Helen paused for a moment, "So will the bacteria sit back and do nothing? "

"No, it will go through the CRISP/Cas system and command the DNA cutting enzyme to excise the virus. "

"And will it succeed?"

An activist asked Helen.

"That's for you to think about. "

"Mr. Parker, can you say what you think? "

Helen lowered her head to look at Peter, who was a little startled to have his name called.

Although he knew that there was something wrong with the woman in front of him, he didn't expect the other party to be so direct.

"No, I don't know."

Peter refused outright.

This woman knew the secret of the alien embryo in her chest?

Comparing the alien embryo in his chest to a male bee or a phage?

What the other party had just said was by no means a coincidence.

"Uh-huh, maybe you could pay attention to the lesson, Mr. Parker, instead of getting your own business underneath."

Helen reached out her hand and crossed it in front of the notebook on his desk.

The fingers lightly traced the paper, and Peter could even feel the lingering scent of her fingers flickering between them.

Peter's notebook was a mess of transcribed scribbles.

Basically, these densely written things were only readable by him.

Its contents were all from his memories of his previous life, about alien-related information.

"I like to take notes, only the way of recording is generally unreadable. "

Peter closed the notebook without blushing.

The fact that this woman still knew his name made him even more wary.

"Perhaps, next time you can come into the office and explain your particular way of taking notes to me? I'm interested."

Helen smiled with a charm that fished all the students in the class into a warble.

"Sorry, can't."

Peter refused without hesitation.

His mind was growing wary of women.

At the same time, the alien embryo in his chest stirred.

The speed of the heart's beating kept accelerating, and it was not one heart but two.

The wildly beating heart brought about an increase in the burden on the body, and a feeling of vomiting and dizziness swept over the whole body.

And the pain in the body gradually increased.

The tyranny and desire to kill that came with the body's previous mutation did not appear at this time.

Instead, it was replaced by a strange feeling.

It seemed to be a different kind of physiological urge.

Holding the pen, he forced down the double torment of his body and mind, trying not to show any abnormality.

Seemingly not noticing Peter's physical condition, Ms. Helen shook her head and said regretfully, "That's too bad."

She gave a deep look towards Peter and stepped on her high heels to walk towards the podium.

"Whether it's a male bee or a phage, they parasitize for one purpose, and that's - to reproduce!"

Her voice was filled with a certain languid air, "Male bees choose to die on their own, phages inject their DNA into bacteria, fungal bodies parasitize humans, and their ultimate goal is to reproduce, one reproduces two, and they keep expanding their populations."

"It's a physiological manifestation, and more than that, a necessary part of nature's derivation."

Peter raised his head and gazed at the other's back.

The metal pen in his hand was almost broken by the pinching of his fingers.

Where on earth did this woman run out of the guy?

...

After the biology class was over, Gwen sat down next to Peter again.

"It looks like all the boys are attracted to her."

Gwen thought the atmosphere in the class was a little weird.

"It looks like Ms. Helen is like the sorority's little sweetheart, and everyone is smitten with her." '

Peter didn't quite understand Gwen's strange analogy, "Sweetheart?"

"Yes, the very popular, the kind where the wilful, scatterbrained students will laugh very cooperatively if she says the word 'frog'."

Perhaps fearing that Peter might misunderstand that she was being careful, Gwen hurriedly explained, "I mean . ..... She doesn't look like a teacher."

"You have to understand a word of biology, Gwen."

Peter thrust the biology book at her.

A line of headings on the lifted book caught her eye - "Biodiversity."

Gwen's mouth immediately curved up at the sight of the phrase.

But she quickly forced down her urge to laugh.

If one laughed like that, one looked rude.

"Well, Peter, you're still good at telling cold jokes."

Hearing Gwen say that, Peter was a bit speechless.

Is this a cold joke?

Gazing at the other party's expression as he suppressed his smile, he suddenly realized that such a Gwen was very charming.

Covering his chest, he felt the difference in his body.

He fell into a deep thought.

No, Gwen never changed.

There was just something about himself that was not normal today.

At the end of school in the afternoon, he found a reason to separate from Gwen and walked towards the New York Presbyterian Hospital although he felt threatened by this woman with strange origins.

But the most important thing for the purpose was to check the changes in the alien embryo.

The most important purpose of parasitism was indeed reproduction.

The purpose of the face-hugging worm parasitizing into one's body was to reproduce.

But again, that's not entirely true.

The fact that it didn't break out of its chest now meant that it wasn't just using itself as a tool needed for reproduction. If he himself was now one with the alien, what was its reproductive manifestation?

On the subway, Peter's eyes glanced through the glass toward the flickering view outside; was the breeding manifestation what he himself was displaying, a physical urge for the opposite sex?

Lowering his head, he reached out and put his hand over his chest, feeling the two heartbeats inside, or was it that he was reproducing by having sex with the opposite sex?

It hadn't occurred to him that alien and heterosexual, those two terms could be linked together.