Quotes About Genetics

Many times people tried to convince me about Ahimsa silk, but when I followed the chain of production it always ended with genetically modified silk moths that could not fly. There was nothing Ahimsa about it.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

George ended by looking at the larger picture. He said that computation at present is still parasitic on us, but it probably is in the process of becoming part of life itself---it's just another system of genetics. Evolution, after all, is massively parallel computation, and now the world of code is evolving, perhaps to reshape the tree of life itself.

A person who has one parent or sibling with major depression is one and a half to three times more likely than the general population to experience it.

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: … a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

the two evolutionary lines, ours and the Neanderthals', both developed such large brains, and perhaps other characteristics in common, because we exchanged genes.

Despite heroic efforts by the geneticist Sewall Wright (1889–1988), causal vocabulary was virtually prohibited for more than half a century. And when you prohibit speech, you prohibit thought and stifle principles, methods, and tools.

our own. It is critical not to feel obliged to inherit something that doesn't belong to us. Or to misread the bond with our loved ones as including their illnesses. Genetics may dictate the transmission of a disease, but we can do much to break our intuitive link to such a process.

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.