Chapter 69 The nature of nature!
"The drones in a bee colony develop from unfertilized eggs and only have haploid chromosomes. However, the sperm cells of drones do not have 0.5 times the chromosomes. They undergo a special 'pseudomeiosis' so they still have haploid chromosomes."

Teacher Helen was holding a book and walking slowly towards the students in high heels.

"The only role of drones in a bee colony is to mate, and after mating, the drones will die immediately."

She moved the book away from her face, a smile playing on her lips.

"This drone is, in a sense, also a parasite."

As she spoke, she glanced in Peter's direction.

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

"But this is not the focus of our lesson today. What we are going to learn is about bacteriophages."

She walked over to Peter, stopped, and added, "The process by which bacteriophages parasitize bacteria."

"A phage is just a bunch of genetic material wrapped in a protein coat. It lacks the materials and tools to replicate itself, but it can inject its DNA into bacteria and then integrate its DNA into the bacteria's DNA."

Helen paused while explaining the process of bacteriophage parasitism. "Will the bacteria just sit there and wait to die?"

"No, it will use the CRISP/Cas system to direct the DNA-cutting enzyme to cut out the virus."

“Will it succeed?”

An activist asked Helen.

“This requires you to think about it.”

Helen lowered her head and looked at Peter. "Mr. Parker, can you tell me what you think?"

Peter was a little surprised when his name was called.

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

"No, I do not know."

Peter refused outright.

Does this woman know the secret of the alien embryo in her chest?
Comparing the alien embryo on his chest to a drone or a bacteriophage?

What the other party just said is definitely not a coincidence.

"Uh-huh, maybe you could pay attention in class, Mr. Parker, instead of minding your own business down there."

Helen reached out and swiped across the notebook on his desk.

As her fingers gently slid across the paper, Peter could even feel the lingering fragrance between her fingers, passing by.

Peter's notebook was a mess of scribblings and scribbles.

Basically, he is the only one who can understand these densely packed things.

All of its contents are information related to aliens from his memories of his previous life.

“I like taking notes, but I don’t write them in a way that most people can understand.”

Peter closed the notebook without blushing or beating his heart.

The woman also knew his name, which made him even more alert.

"Maybe. Can you come to my office next time and explain your special recording method to me? I'm very interested."

Helen's charming smile made all the students in the class become greedy.

"Sorry, no."

Peter refused without hesitation.

He became increasingly wary of women.

At the same time, the alien embryo in the chest also began to move abnormally.

The heart beat faster and faster, and it wasn't just one heart but two.

The pounding heart puts more pressure on the body, and a feeling of nausea and dizziness sweeps over the whole body.

And the pain in the body gradually worsened.

The brutality and desire for killing that came with the previous physical mutation did not appear at this time.

Instead, there was a strange feeling.

It seemed to be a different kind of physiological impulse. Holding the pen, he forced himself to suppress the dual torture of body and mind, trying not to show any abnormality.

Seemingly not noticing Peter's physical condition, Teacher Helen shook her head and said regretfully, "That's a pity."

She looked at Peter deeply and walked towards the podium in her high heels.

"Whether it's a drone or a bacteriophage, they have only one purpose for parasitism, and that is - reproduction!"

Her voice was filled with a certain laziness. "Drone bees choose to die on their own, bacteriophages inject their DNA into bacteria, and fungi parasitize humans. Their ultimate goal is to reproduce, one reproduces two, and the population continues to expand."

"This is a physiological manifestation, and it is also an inevitable path for nature to evolve."

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

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

Where on earth did this woman come from?
After the biology class, Gwen sat next to Peter again.

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

Gwen felt that the atmosphere in the class was a little weird.

"It looks like Miss Helen is the sweetheart of the sorority. Everyone is obsessed with her."

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

"Yes, she is very popular. As long as she says the word 'frog', those wayward and undisciplined students will laugh in unison."

Perhaps fearing that Peter would misunderstand her as being narrow-minded, Gwen quickly explained, "I mean, she doesn't look like a teacher."

"There's a word about biology you have to understand, Gwen."

Peter pushed the biology book towards her.

A title on the opened book caught her eye - "Biodiversity."

When Gwen saw this, the corners of her mouth immediately curled up.

But she quickly suppressed the urge to laugh.

If you laugh like this, you will appear very impolite.

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

Peter was speechless when he heard Gwen say this.

Is this a joke?

Looking at the other person's expression of suppressing a smile, he suddenly found that Gwen was very charming like this.

He covered his chest, feeling the strangeness in his body.

He was lost in thought.

No, Gwen never changed.

It’s just that I feel a little abnormal today.

After school in the afternoon, he found an excuse to separate from Gwen and walked towards New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Although I felt threatened by this woman with a strange origin.

But the most important thing at the moment is to check the changes in the abnormal embryo.

The most important purpose of parasitism is indeed reproduction.

The purpose of the face hugger parasitizing your body is to reproduce.

But this statement is not entirely correct.

The fact that it has not broken out of the chest now means that it is not just being used as a tool for reproduction.

If I am now one with the alien, how will its reproduction be performed?

In the subway, Peter looked through the glass at the scenery flashing by outside.

Is reproductive behavior the physical impulse towards the opposite sex that one expresses?
Lowering his head, he stretched out his hand and placed it on his chest, feeling the two heartbeats inside.

Or does having sex with the opposite sex result in reproduction?
He didn't expect that the two words "alien" and "opposite sex" could be connected together.

(End of this chapter)