Quotes About Biology

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

Compuestos de células vivas y en desagregación, estamos hechos de muerte.

La verdad es que son precisamente los animales quienes sólo emplean el sexo para procrear

If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

Medicine is so fascinating.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

Do I have fat cells on my body? Everybody has fat cells. Do I have more than most other athletes? Probably.

I don't want them to have to be the one to come tell me, 'Hey, you performing at the top of your sport is no longer feasible. Biology has set its course.'

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mutations that cause teeth and claws to come back to their mouth and limbs. You need to replace the feathers with scales, but there are no feathers on their legs and feet, so you just need to make its whole body like its legs are.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat, whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Whales and dolphins have extraordinary hearing and the ability to communicate in widely varying voices.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.