It's been a while since we've seen this chapter, but it's time for us to get a little taste of what's in store for the rest of the gang. First, we're introduced to the "fusion of life" experiment, which is basically a fancy way of saying that you can create a new kind of life from a bunch of different kinds of living things. The idea is that you're going to take all the living things and put them in a petri dish to see if they can produce a new form of life.