Quotes About Biology

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

I think it was genetic: my legs were born like this.

My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.

I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Boys and girls are not the same.

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted the suicide; the biologists abstract from everything except the dying organism; while the physicists are interested in the man, not as mind, or as organism, but as a falling body.

totalidad. El sexo es biológico y fisiológico y tiene sus zonas

how does DNA control RNA? The structure of DNA must at least give us a hint.

The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In

Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

We are wired to find love.

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.

Most relationships probably start with people going, 'Meh, it's probably best not to be embarking in this relationship.' We do it, though, because our brains are wired to make babies or whatever.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.