Quotes About Genetics

Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

I have rather skinny legs - I blame my dad's side of the family.

I have always had incredibly skinny legs. It's in my family.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.

The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

The most remarkable part of all is your DNA. You have a metre of it packed into every cell, and so many cells that if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single fine strand it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto. Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

You have three chromosomes, Bryson. X, Y, and Fuckhead. -- Katz

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so

The most remarkable part of all is your DNA. You have a metre of it packed into every cell, and so many cells that if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single fine strand it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto.8 Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so.

As Siddhartha Mukherjee observed in The Gene: An Intimate History, humans don't actually reproduce at all.8 Geckos reproduce; we recombine.

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured—never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history." We

Typically a cell will contain some 20,000 different types of protein, and of these about 2,000 types will each be represented by at least 50,000 molecules.

For the first 99.99999 per cent of our history as organisms, we were in the same ancestral line as chimpanzees.

Data from any single gene cannot really tell you anything so definitive. If

In this sense, according to Harding, every gene is a different highway, and we have only barely begun to map the routes. "No single gene is ever going to tell you the whole story

DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is "among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world