Genes and time travel

If time travel were possible, how much energy would be required to transport something back in time?  In my opinion, the amount of energy would be related to the amount of knowledge manifest in the matter being transported.

For example, imagine transporting a mechanical clock back in time to ancient Egypt (1500 BC) when the first sundials were being invented.  People were clearly ready for the concept of tracking time, so they would probably understand the purpose of the clock.  By having the clock in their hands to explore and decipher, it would shorten (by millenia) the time to invent such a clock.

I believe it's the same way with genes.  Evolution is a process of trial and error, whereby genes change in response to the environment.  Genes gain knowledge of the environment.  For example, genes responsible for the formation of eyes have knowledge of the three-dimensional nature of the world.

The amount of intelligence (i.e. knowledge of the environment) contained in a gene is related to the experience manifest over millions of years of evolution.  So the energy required to transport a gene back in time would be equivalent to the time spent manifesting that knowledge into its form.