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Contents Group C

C1 Hatching & conditioning

C2 The scientific back- ground: then and now

C1 Hatching and conditioning

by Yannic and Toby

3. Back in - Alphas and Betas remain bottled until final filling (p.3, ll.27-28)

Incubators - Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons are brought out again after 36 h to undergo Bokanovsky's

Process (p.3, ll.28-31)

7. Social Pre-

destination

Room

6. Bottling - putting of piece of fresh sow's peritoneum in large bottles (p.6, ll. 34)

Room/Ma- - eggs’ transferring from their test-tubes to the bottles (p.7, ll.11-12)

Triculator - adjusting of Morula (p.7, ll.12-14)

- saline solution is poured in (p.7, l.14)

è container passes for labelling (heredity, date of fertilization, membership of Bokanovsky

Group) (p.7, ll.15-17)

2. Fertilizing - eggs in porous bin (p.3 l.19)

- then bin in warm liquor with free-swimming spermatozoa, 100k/cm³ (p.3, ll. 20-23)

- ten minutes later lifting out of the liquor and checking of its contents (p.3, ll. 23-25)

- if some are unfertilized, they will be lifted in again (p.3, ll. 25-26)

- fertilized ova is put back to the incubators (p.3, ll. 26-27)

1. Incubators - ova at blood heat (37°C); gamete at 35°C (p.2-3, ll.31-1)

- checking of:

è optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity (p.3, ll. 11-14)

(detached/ripened eggs are kept in liquor)

è eggs are controlled under microscope (p.3, ll. 16-19)

à abnormalities, counting

5. Back in - after two days cooling down and checking à Buds stop growing (p.4, ll. 19-20)

Incubators - from 2 over 4 up to 8 further buds (p.4, ll. 20-21)

- addition of nearly deadly rate of alcohol à further budding (p.4, ll.21-22)

- left to develop in peace (further arrest would be generally fatal) (p. 4, ll. 22-25)

- finally from 8 to 96 embryos could be produced (p.4, l.27)

4. Bokanovsky - slowing down the normal growth à Egg responds by budding (p.4, ll.8)

Process - moving in test-tubes on moving band (p.4, ll.11-12)

- 8 minutes under X-rays à a few eggs die

“Every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult” (p.4, ll.2-4)

(p.4, ll. 14-17) à arising from two up to eight buds

- are returned to the incubators (p.4, ll. 17-18)

information listed in chronological order (p. 9,l.27 – p.14,l.32)

band unit content

	every 12 meter until metre 2040 à corpus luteum extract is automatically injected
	every 7^th and 8^th metre à embryos are shaken into familiarity with movement
112 m	artificial maternal circulation is installed in every bottle
	they allow thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally (for the case of emergency)
	other female embryos get every 24 metres a dose of male sex-hormone à born as freemartins (side effect: slight tendency of beard growth)
200 m	test for sex is carried outà labelling - a "T" for the males - a circle for the females, - a question mark for the freemartins
320 m rack 11	embryos get different amounts of oxygen - the lower the caste the shorter the oxygen
170 m rack 9	during their journey bottles remain in a kind of tunnel; hot and cool tunnels alternate è “Heat Conditioning”: use of hard X-rays to create uncomfortable coolness èprospective tropical workers have a horror of cold
150 m	gelatinous contents are injected against typhoid and sleeping sickness (for tropical workers)
rack 10	rows of the next generations' chemical workers are being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine
1100 rack 3	embryonic rocket-plane engineers are kept in constant rotation to improve their sense of balance
900 m rack 5	intellectual conditioning till the foetuses have lost their tails (for Alpha-Plus Intellectuals)
2040- 2136 m	increasing doses of pituitary is applied