Quotes About Genetics

We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

It's genetic. I exercise, but I gain mass very quickly.

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

Natural selection is anything but random.

We may look back in horror that we allowed our children to be born of the random processes that nature provides.

Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.

There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.

I've got the 'fat gene' in my family, so I've always got to watch what I eat.

I didn't get the charm gene.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.

To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

Genes are not destiny!

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