Quotes About Genetics

The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

I like biology a lot.

I do believe at some point in time everyone will be genotyped at birth.

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

When I get really down, I remember that we all share 99.99 per cent of our DNA with Beyonce. And suddenly, the world doesn't seem too bleak.

I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

You began in a sperm cell as a strand of DNA that still doesn't know who you are.

twenty-three chromosomes lie 3.2 billion ATCGs. All of this code equals one human genome, which you could print out in a very boring 6.4-million-page book. A strand of DNA is so thin (two molecules across) that if all of the chromosomes in a single cell were stretched

Not only ordinary individuals, but even specialists—say, anthropologists or sociologists or geneticists—cannot present a convincing rationale for distinguishing among human groups by physical characteristics. Our "second nature," our "common sense" about race, it turns out, is deeply uncertain, almost mythical.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

That is, findings published in Pediatrics in 2017 concluded that "at 9 years of age, children with father loss have significantly shorter telomeres."1 Telomeres in our cells are what keep our genes from being deleted as our cells divide. As the National Academy of Sciences reports, "Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan."2

She knew that many of my blood relatives had mental illness, but she couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots.

One reason for the low correlations between individuals' circumstances and their satisfaction with life is that both experienced happiness and life satisfaction are largely determined by the genetics of temperament. A disposition for well-being is as heritable as height or intelligence, as demonstrated by studies of twins separated at birth.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person—you already feel fortunate. An optimistic attitude is largely inherited, and it is part of a general disposition for well-being, which may also include a preference for seeing the bright side of everything.

La medicina è la più diffusa malattia ereditaria.

Inheritance is a trickster. One generation may hide its genetic treasures, while the next will put them fully on display.

about 30 percent of our health and vitality is out of our control because of our genetics and gender.