Vincent Doumeizel

Right, okay.

Because I was going to ask you, you know, when we look at plankton...

You know, it's so diverse, they can't be very well genetically related, right?

I mean, it's got to be a lot of diverse plankton out there.

Why do we see that?

Why don't we see a sort of a monoculture of plankton, given the free reign of the ocean and the resources that you need to take advantage of to survive?

Why don't we see a monoculture of plankton?

Because we don't know anything about plankton.

But really, we don't know anything.

Just to give you an example, 10 years ago, we launched an expedition to characterize virus in the ocean, to understand the virus.

And we knew about 40 or zero different virus in the ocean at this time.

10 years after, we know half a million.

So that's the same with any genes and any type of plankton that is in the ocean.

We have discovered 150 million new genes in the ocean over the last 10 years.

I mean, in our body, we have 20,000 genes.

So you can imagine what 150 million new genes are.

And we have discovered only 10% of what's in the ocean.

So we cannot cultivate plankton.

We don't know how to do that because we don't know them.

We don't know what kills them.