Quotes About Genetics

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

I think it would be great if in 50 years you could find out lots more about the conditions your child is going to have - and if we lived in a society that is so tolerant that many things that might now lead to abortion would then be seen as part of human variance.

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Maybe it's genetics, I've been lucky enough to grow some facial hair. A bit of oil here and there and a trim up, but there's not a lot to it.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later.

GPS on the molecular level.

I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

of these muscle peddlers claim they're hard gainers, and brag about how they overcame their "hardgainingness" using the training methods (and perhaps supplements) you can buy from them, sometimes at outrageous prices. But what these men don't tell you is that they overcame their genetic shortcomings with long-term drug abuse. Remember that the first casualty of steroid use is the truth. Be on your guard!

From what they have learnt so far, they reckon that some 20–30 per cent of our natural lifespan is accounted for by our genetic heritage, while environmental influences account for the rest.

is Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, at 1ft 9½ins (54.6cm), a primordial dwarf who enjoyed a long life for those with his condition – he died in 2015 at the age of seventy-five. As is demonstrated by these examples, genetics is not the only influence on our adult stature.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.