Quotes About Genetics

Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise.

Neuroanatomy isn't destiny. Neither is genetics. They don't define who you will be. But they do define who you might be. They define who you can be.

The body and the brain aren't two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heart and organs also work in your brain, and many genes do one thing

The body and the brain aren't two different things, controlled by two completely different sets of genes. Many of the same chemicals that work in your heart and organs also work in your brain, and many genes do one thing in your body and another thing in your brain.

Parents and teachers should look at the child, not the child's label, and remember that the same genes that produce his Asperger's may have given the child the capacity to become one of the truly great minds of his generation.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.

I have been blessed with good genes, and that's why, irrespective of how much I eat, I still retain my lean look.

In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

Eski öjeni, uygun olanlar?n yetiÅŸtirilmesi ve uygun görülmeyenlerin yok edilmesi amac?yla sürekli seçme iÅŸlemi gerektirirdi. Yeni öjeni ise uygun olmayanlar?n her birinin olas? en yüksek genetik düzeye ç?kart?lmalar?na ilkece olanak verecektir.

Hungtington hastal??? gibi az say?da tek gen bozukluklar? bir yana, genler bir bireyin nihai durumunu asla yüzde yüz oran?nda belirlemezler. ... Anne babalar eÅŸcinsel bir izciba?? yönetiminde gidilen bir kamp gezisinin, oÄŸullar?n?n eÅŸcinsel bir deneyim geçirmesine yol açmas?ndan kayg?lan?yorlarsa, oÄŸullar?nda eÅŸcinsellik geni bulunmamas? endiÅŸelerinden kurtulmalar?n? saÄŸlamayacakt?r.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

Studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental risks are pinpointing critical parts of our health that derive from environmental variables.

Today, we have discovered that everyone is born with dozens of genetic glitches. There are no perfect human specimens. But not all our glitches are the same, so one treatment often does not fit all sufferers of a given disease.

Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways:

Poate c? omul este r?u din fire È™i genele sale, cu trecerea secolelor, s-au modificat în ceva È™i mai r?u...

nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame

other words, he is more closely related to any of the Neanderthal samples, all of which date from at least 30,000 years ago, than he is to any living man, woman or child on the planet.

Sociobiology, E. O. Wilson

Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

large-scale breeding experiments.

I definitely believe that genetics and neurobiology can play a critical role in addiction, but I also believe that there are countless people out there struggling with numbing and taking the edge off because the disease model of addiction doesn't fit their experiences as closely as a model that takes numbing processes into consideration. Not everyone's addiction is the same.

One is that people, on the whole, had better not marry their cousins. Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all.

Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the circulation, people with any constitutional flaw preventing the due fulfillment of the conditions of life are continually dying out and leaving behind those fit for the climate, food, and habits to which they are born....And thus is the race kept free from vitiation.