Quotes About Genetics

Generalized alopecia, or total loss of body hair, has been attributed to many causes, ranging from genetic factors to severe stress, but remarkably little is known for certain.

What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell!

Hubbard says there are actually two separate genetic lines that, in the history of evolution, first came together in the mollusk

How much do you work out? I don't, he said. It's genetic. Which it was. Puberty had brought him many things unbidden, including height and weight and an extreme mesomorph physique, with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, and a chest like a suit of NFL armor, and biceps like basketballs, and subcutaneous fat like a Kleenex tissue. He had never messed with any of it. No diets. No weights. No gym time. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, was his attitude.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

Cruelty and compassion come with the chromosomes

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!

lands behind the former Iron Curtain: the West has its own versions now. On the other hand, Brave New World hasn't gone away. Shopping malls stretch as far as the bulldozer can see. On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the Gen-rich

That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. We're allergic to raw onion.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible part of one's nature.

race was defined as an inheritable trait

fertility and intelligence, dysgenics, and the Idiocracy effect.

the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

They were a reshuffling of the genetic deck never seen on Earth.

There was a long silence, during which Hall seemed lost in thought. "Who knows," he mused finally, almost to himself. "Maybe you've got some Neanderthal DNA in you somewhere.