![]() ![]() He watched the samples grow, and then he carefully moved them to the incubator.īut it wasn’t all right. All that was hidden in the droplet.įinally the round outlines quivered and lines appeared, dividing the cells in two. It might even have a hazy desire for music or crossword puzzles. ![]() The cell already understood what color hair it was to have, how tall it would become, and even whether it preferred spinach to broccoli. So much knowledge was hidden in that tiny world! Even Eduardo, who understood the process very well, was awed. Each was furnished with all it needed to grow. Each one contained a drop of life.Įduardo moved his dishes, one after the other, under the lens of the microscope. A dull, red light shone on the faces of the workers as they watched their own arrays of little glass dishes. Water bubbled through tubes that snaked around the warm, humid walls. He studied them anxiously in the darkened room. In the beginning there were thirty-six of them, thirty-six droplets of life so tiny that Eduardo could see them only under a microscope. Chapter 1: In the Beginning 1 IN THE BEGINNING ![]()
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