Quotes About Biology

Even the surfaces of individual cells have their own descriptors—mammillose for a breast-like swelling, papillose for a little bump, and pluripapillose when there are enough bumps to look like chicken pox. While they may initially seem like arcane technical terms, these words have life to them. What better word for a thick, round shoot, swelling with water than julaceous?

The internal machinery of the cell can turn on and quickly repair the desiccation damage. Only twenty minutes after wetting, the moss can go from dehydration to full vigor.

I wonder how the fabric is changed when the release of daughters tears a hole. Does it heal over quickly, or does the empty space remain? And how do the daughter cells make new connections? How is the fabric rewoven?

Daddy? Daddy, I know the baby is in the mommy"s tummy and the baby comes out of the mommy"s tummy, but, Daddy? How do that baby get in the mommy"s tummy?

To be exact, there are twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in the human body, and each chromosome is packed with genes, and each gene holds myriad genetic information," Catherine explained. "My family

Katie had said that motherhood had no expiration date, and Jill had agreed, believing to the bone that that it transcended everything—biology, law, even time and space.

It's about biology, genetics, of course. But most of all, it's about what you do with what you're given.

When it's cool, babies tend to wake up and move their bodies more, as

Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies. The other half is copied from the man I admire most in all the worlds and time, so my interest is doubly riveted. The artistic combination of the two, shall we say, arrests my attention.

Weddell/Canaba was still an ass at heart, Miles reflected. But he did know his molecular biology. After

La mayoría de los hombres no son más que máquinas que convierten la comida en mierda» —citó. Ivan le miró alzando una ceja. —¿Quién dijo eso? ¿Tu abuelo? —Leonardo da Vinci —respondió Miles al momento. Pero se vio obligado a añadir—: Pero mi abuelo me lo citó a mí

Go dance with the girl, Mark. She thinks you're interesting. Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick—that makes us grow.

Despite the fact that childbearing has been delayed into the 20s and 30s, the brain still expects this to happen at 12 or 13 years of age.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

tiene relación con la mayor o menor exposición a la testosterona en el útero materno.

Our brain has been shaped by evolutionary pressure over time to provide our bodies with ever more efficient ways of surviving and reproducing. It is designed to process all information for the purpose of living on, it doesn't care about happiness – it has things to do, places to go.

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

Ci segnala subito che ci troviamo in un punto della terra dove una biologia esuberante e instancabile lavora, produce, prolifera e fiorisce senza sosta e senza sosta si ammala, si decompone, si tarla e marcisce.

They say women have a much higher pain threshold. They say it's because we are the ones who have to go through childbirth. I say it's because women have a much higher everything than most men.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Over 99 percent of the species that ever walked, flew, or slithered upon this earth are now extinct. This fact alone appears to rule out intelligent design.

The sea squirt—a very simple marine creature—swims about during its juvenile phase looking for a place to settle, and once it settles and starts filter feeding, it digests its own brain, because it no longer has any need for perceptual or motor competence. This is often used as an unkind analogy for getting tenure in academia.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.