I used Hextech Grinding to become a top student

Chapter 70 Scientific Sacred Body, Testing Strength

The professor himself did not come; he sent two graduate students to receive him.

One man and one woman, one fat and one thin, one short and one tall.

All the nice words are for girls, and the senior is quite pretty.

And their attitude was much warmer. They were a pleasant surprise when they came in. I saw four younger students, three of whom were very good-looking.

The senior student introduced herself: "My name is Zhou Qingchuan, you can call me Sister Chuan. I didn't expect the current junior students to be so good-looking."

"You flatter me, senior." Zhang Weiji scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.

"I wasn't talking about you," Zhou Qingchuan added, then chuckled after delivering the blow. "Just kidding. Come with me, there's a sightseeing bus here."

"Wow, the university is huge! Do we really need to take a bus?" Zhang Weiji exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, our school's campus alone covers 4260 acres. Do you think that's big?" Zhou Qingchuan said.

Chen Muguang quickly calculated in his mind: "2,840,014 square meters."

Sister Chuan asked in confusion, "What are you talking about?"

"You don't understand him. He's just showing off, displaying his shameful mental arithmetic skills," Zhang Weiji said.

"What? Mental arithmetic? You mean you calculated the area here in your head?" Zhou Qingchuan realized that she had never actually done it before, so she took out her phone and immediately started typing.

"One mu of land is 666.67 square meters, multiplied by 4260, which equals—Wow, really!" Zhou Qingchuan exclaimed in surprise, "You actually have this kind of mental arithmetic ability?"

"He's just being passive," Zhang Weiji said. "This guy can't stand not showing off."

Chen Mu wasn't trying to show off; he was mainly trying to use various methods to connect with people and find out what a hero unit was and what conditions would trigger the attribute drop.

It was a very natural way to attract attention. Even the short, chubby boy who had been silent couldn't help but look over, and then said, with a complete lack of emotional intelligence, "Being good at mental arithmetic is useless. There are plenty of computers in scientific research. No matter how good you are, can you out-calculate against a supercomputer like Shenwei?"

The Sunway he mentioned refers to TaihuLight, currently the most powerful supercomputer in the country, which is naturally incomparable to humans.

However, it would be a big mistake to say that mental arithmetic is useless.

Just as Chen Mu was about to speak, Zhou Qingchuan interrupted him, saying, "Don't mistake rudeness for a characteristic of a top student, okay? Don't be angry, this senior is named Li Yan. He spends all his time in the lab doing research, stays up all night and loses hair, and is a bit irritable."

People who are so focused on scientific research are often a little obsessed, their minds are filled with research techniques. They've already published several SCI papers; that's quite impressive at our Changnan University.

"Is SCI really that impressive?" Jiang Yueyao asked tentatively.

Just as Li Yan was about to boast, Chen Mu interrupted, realizing that this guy couldn't explain it clearly either, so he said, "Let me do it."

"The so-called SCI stands for Science Citation Index, which is a journal self-indexing index operated by Clarivate Analytics. It is not a magazine itself, but a database that includes high-quality academic journals from around the world."

Clarivate Analytics calculates and publishes the Impact Factor based on citation data from the past two years for journals. This is a core indicator for measuring the academic influence of journals.

The impact factor serves as an important reference for the academic community in evaluating the academic achievements of journals and scholars.

For example, the impact factor in 2000 represents the average number of times each paper published in that journal in 1998 and 1999 was cited in 2000.

若该期刊1998—1999年共发表100篇论文，这些论文在2000年被引用了250次。

Therefore, according to the formula, 250 ÷ 100 gives an impact factor of 2.5.

After Chen Mu explained, Zhou Qingchuan laughed and said, "It seems that you really want to do scientific research, junior. You even know about these things so early."

"Not really, I just have a good memory, I basically never forget things I've seen," Chen Mu said modestly.

"Really? Super strong mental arithmetic and memory, a natural scientific genius?" Zhou Qingchuan joked.

"How is that possible? You have such a good memory? Then let me ask you, if you go to the biology lab, do you know what you'll be doing?" Li Yan asked.

"Culturing cells, bacteria, and animals; conducting molecular experiments; processing samples; performing tests; organizing data; reading documents; writing; and of course, the indispensable task of washing test tubes," Chen Mu answered naturally and fluently.

"Wow, you've really done your homework." Zhou Qingchuan looked at him with newfound respect. Li Yan felt embarrassed and prepared to go straight for something tough.

"You'll know all this if you look at the information beforehand. Now, let me ask you something more difficult," Li Yan said.

"I don't mind you asking me questions, but why should I answer them? How about we add a prize? If I can answer them, you can treat us all to dinner tonight, no problem, right?" Chen Mu said. Although it was fun to show off, he didn't want to waste too much breath.

So many people want to test themselves, how can it happen without some cost?

"Okay, then you just need to answer two questions for me." Li Yan was extremely confident. He originally wanted to test him with something simple, but since he was playing this game with him, he had no choice but to increase the difficulty.

"What is oxidative phosphorylation?" Li Yan asked.

"This is so inconsiderate! How can you use a real postgraduate entrance exam question? People have only just graduated from high school!" Zhou Qingchuan protested. The answer to this question was very simple; you could just memorize it. But the average high school student couldn't possibly understand it.

These are things that require a very deep understanding before one needs to memorize and comprehend them. A senior high school student's knowledge base cannot be that broad, and these topics are not even tested in the college entrance examination.

Oxidative phosphorylation refers to the process in which hydrogen released from metabolic substrates during biological oxidation is transferred to oxygen via the respiratory chain to generate water.

Simultaneously, the free energy released during electron transfer is used in the coupling process of ADP phosphorylation to generate ATP.

"It is the core pathway for aerobic organisms to obtain energy and the main way for ATP to be generated in cells," Chen Mu answered in less than a second.

"Huh? You even know that?" Li Yan was dumbfounded, but fortunately he was prepared.

The first question was to test the opponent's ability. Since the opponent could answer this, their level is indeed not low, so the second question will not be about martial ethics!

"In eukaryotes, why must the C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II be periodically phosphorylated and dephosphorylated to complete the full transcription cycle?" Li Yan said, referring to a real question he took on his doctoral entrance exam.

Even Zhou Qingchuan might not know the answer, let alone others.

Zhou Qingchuan was about to curse. This Li Yan had no sense of propriety at all, going way too far beyond the curriculum. She didn't even know the answer.

"Phosphorylation promotes the transition from transcription initiation to elongation, recruiting capping, splicing, and tailing factors. Dephosphorylation, on the other hand, allows Pol1 to be recycled and regenerated, enabling it to re-participate in new transcription initiation. Otherwise, the transcriptional machinery cannot cycle, and gene expression completely stops. Right?" Chen Mu answered again, directly breaking Li Yan's defenses.

How could someone so easily give the answers to the doctoral entrance exam questions when the other person had no idea what the questions would be?

Did I end up with a fake graduate degree?

Zhang Weiji and Jiang Shen were dumbfounded. I thought to myself, we didn't learn that in high school either.

Are you from the same school as me? Just trying to understand what they're saying is already a struggle. High school biology is too basic; I only know a little about eukaryotes, and everything else is way beyond the curriculum.

Moreover, you answered the question on the spot without any prior preparation. Just how extensive is your knowledge?