Quotes About Genetics

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.

none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are too untidy, human history is too convoluted, people too motile. The deck has been shuffled and reshuffled. Genetics has shown that people are different, and these differences cluster according to geography and culture, but never in a way that aligns with the traditional concepts of human races.

Genetics is messy and mathematical, but powerful if deployed in the right way. People are horny. Lives are complex. A secret history is truly hidden in the mosaics of our genomes, but caveat emptor. No

Are we slaves or masters of our genes? We are neither, and it's a dumb, simplistic question.

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

In discovering that half of his biological heritage consisted of nothing more than an impersonal concoction of designer proteins, artificially leveraged by indifferent scientists to produce a zygote that when matured would, they hoped, display certain interesting mental abilities, he had felt something fundamental drain out of him. He had been nothing more than a test, an experiment, one among many.

I've never lifted weights in my life," Shudder responded. "My muscle mass is a natural part of my being genetically superior to you.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

Pamela Peeke, lo expresa: "Puede que la genética cargue la pistola, pero el ambiente aprieta el gatillo".

The renowned Russian geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once remarked, "All species are unique,

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

Genes are deterministic but they are not destiny.