Quotes About Genetics

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence.

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

There are a few genetic traits that make people feel sorry for you, and there are some, like narcolepsy, at which people take personal offense unless you tell them in advance.

23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

The core beliefs that the alcoholism movement has successfully promulgated are: Alcoholics don't drink too much because they intend to, but only because they can't control their drinking. Alcoholics inherit their alcoholism and thus are born as alcoholics. Alcoholism always grows worse without treatment, so that alcoholics can never cut back or quit drinking on their own.

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

So that's that, Duncan is not the father of your child." She sighed. "Pity though, I bet the two of you would have decent-looking kids. Not gorgeous, mind you, but really decent-looking. And sturdy." Aww.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

Dirty four. It's what some geneticists call the DRD4 gene.

Life is too short, and DNA too long.

The DNA molecule was so old that its evolution had essentially finished more than two billion years ago.

Michael Crichton

La vida es demasiado corta y el ADN demasiado largo.

Every little decision adds up, and even more as you live longer. That is what good genetic engineers do! Your lifestyle choices change the functioning of your DNA switches as surely (and in a much cheaper and easier way) than CRISPR.

Icelanders are among the most inbred human beings on earth—geneticists often use them for research.

genomic sequencing

Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.