Quotes About Genetics

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man's genetic commonality. Thus

ocular albinism.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

Human embryos develop then discard gills, tails, and other apparent echoes of their evolutionary past.

And so Mary at last turned her attention to Ponter's nuclear DNA. She'd thought it would be even more difficult to find a difference there, and indeed, despite much searching, she hadn't found any sequence of nucleotides that was reliably different between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens; all her primers matched strings on DNA from both kinds of humans.

hemophilia is an inherited blood-clotting deficiency, transmitted by women according to the sex-linked recessive Mendelian pattern. Thus, while women carry the defective genes, they almost never suffer from the disease. With rare exceptions, it strikes only males. Yet it does not necessarily strike all the males in a family. Genetically as well as clinically, hemophilia is capricious.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

With CRISPR/CAS9, any gene whose sequence is known can be removed, replaced, turned on, or turned off, and all this can be done in the equivalent of someone's garage.

Este es el secreto que los titanes de la industria, los máximos representantes del arte y los mayores triunfadores de la humanidad nunca compartirán con vosotros: el éxito colosal no depende tanto de la genética heredada como de los hábitos diarios. Y el ritual de la mañana es, con diferencia, el más importante que debéis calibrar. Y automatizar.

Veli?ina je upisana u genetskom materijalu svakog ljudskog bi?a. Naši životi bi trebalo da budu uzbudljivi i ispunjeni radoš?u, ljubavlju, mirom i lepotom. Sre?a je naše ro?enjem ste?eno pravo. Pali smo u zamku osrednjosti. Verujemo da nismo stvoreni za ?udesa. Igramo na malo zbog straha da ?emo se povrediti ako zako- ra?imo ka višim mogu?nostima, da nas ljudi ne?e voleti ili da nam životi ne?e funkcionisati.