Quotes About Genetics

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA—hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

My mom has really great skin; my dad has really good skin. I don't feel like I have to do a lot of work in regards to that.

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

My genes are such that I've always been relatively in shape.

Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

I look back and I have always been big and curvy. Our family all have big arms, bigger legs, bigger hips and bum. That's just the way we're built.

Well, actually I think it's very important with breeding thoroughbreds - which I did for a period - and my husband is head of the Kennel Club, and it's very important with dogs and horses, because otherwise things go wrong in the competitions.

We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

We have no proof introns don't code for something.

To understand what makes a serial killer, he'd written in the introduction to his book, law enforcement and other interested parties need to dig in to the killer's family tree. No one becomes the ultimate evil merely because they were born bad; they become evil because it is almost a part of their DNA.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, more. Trial balloons of biology.

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.