The McG cycle has a few very useful features. It spits out a two-carbon product at one of the steps, which can be directly used in the production of lipids. It also builds that molecule by incorporating carbon atoms at two different steps in the cycle, meaning a single cycle captures more carbon than gets taken up during the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis. (One of these is technically a bicarbonate molecule, which is produced when carbon dioxide dissolves in water.) Finally, there is a point in the McG cycle where it can exchange molecules with the Calvin cycle, allowing those two systems to interact and draw off any excess materials produced by either of them. Nice, but does it work?…
And, well, it worked remarkably well. The plants carrying all the genes for the McG cycle weighed two to three times as much as control plants that only had some of the genes. They had more leaves, the leaves themselves were larger, and the plants produced more seeds. In a variety of growing conditions, the plants with an intact McG cycle incorporated more carbon, and they did so without increasing their water uptake.
Папа с шестилетним сыном в поликлинике.
Врач: Так ты Миша? Ну, расскажи, что у тебя болит?
Миша: Ничего не болит! Меня папа сюда привёл!
Врач: Ну хорошо...папа, что случилось у Миши?
Папа: Да я не знаю, нас жена сюда послала...
Иногда сидишь и думаешь: «Господи, ну за что мне это всё?!» А потом вспоминаешь, что есть за что, и думаешь: «Ну, так-то еще пронесло».
I wish the AI coding dream were true. I wish I could make every dumb coding idea I ever had a reality. I wish I could make a fretboard learning app on Monday, a Korean trainer on Wednesday, and a video game on Saturday. I’d release them all. I’d drown the world in a flood of shovelware like the world had never seen. Well, I would — if it worked.
It turns out, though, and I’ve collected a lot of data on this, it doesn’t just not work for me, it doesn’t work for anyone, and I’m going to prove that.