Quotes About Genetics

Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties.

El embrión no queda afectado, y sirve como indicio de la pasada condición de las especies. Por eso sucede que las especies existentes, durante los primeros períodos de su desarrollo, se parecen a menudo a formas antiguas y extinguidas

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]

muchísimas de las variaciones domésticas más marcadas no podrían vivir en estado salvaje, puesto que en muchos casos no sabemos cuál sea el tronco primitivo, y por consiguiente, no podemos decir si se ha verificado o no el retroceso casi perfecto, mientras que para evitar los efectos del cruzamiento sería necesario que una sola variedad hubiera quedado suelta en su nueva residencia.

The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown.

Habiendo tenido ejemplares vivos de casi todas las castas inglesas de aves de corral, habiéndoselas criado y cruzado, después de examinar sus esqueletos, nos parece casi cierto que en su totalidad descienden de la raza salvaje india Gallus bankiva.

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species.

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You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.

This compares to a 202 base pair difference between us and Neanderthals

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve. (Think about that for a moment.)

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. —Richard Dawkins

One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.