HONG KONG, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- A dozen silkworms whose parents took a spin around the planet have been donated to a Hong Kong secondary school that originally suggested the idea.
The astronauts on Monday donated the descendants of these "space silkworms" to the school, who will study them to see if the favorable variation will be inherited, according to Tuesday's South China Morning Post.
Last October, six silkworms were taken onboard the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft and spent about a month in space.
The experiment to study how the silkworms transformed in a weightless environment had been suggested by pupils at Christian and Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Secondary School.
Chow Wing-hei, a physics teacher at the school and in charge of the silkworm project, said pupils would take turns to care for the silkworms in the school's laboratory.
