Quotes About Biology

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.

One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

Human cloning is coming.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

Nismo ni fizi?ari, ni metafizi?ari: moramo da budemo egiptolozi. ... Ne postoje ni stvari, ni duhovi, postoje samo tela: astralna tela, biljna tela. Biologija bi bila u pravu kad bi znala da su tela sama u sebi ve? jezik.

I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.