Quotes About Genetics

Health isn't only what was genetically given to you; it's also about your environment and what you do on a day-to-day basis. The more we understand that, the more we can personalize it, and really, it requires us to have more and more data about the individual.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.

Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?

The problem with the gene pool is, that there is no life guard.

They have come up with a bold idea: Our minds, too, are shaped by conflict between our parents' genes.

Among children who grew up in affluent families, the heritability was about 60 percent. But twins from poorer families showed no greater correlation than other siblings. Their heritability was close to zero.

Jotkut saavat perimässä poikkeuksellisen paljon typeryysgeenejä ja kuuluvat näin ollen syntymästään lähtien typerysten eliittiin.

not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.

Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.

Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes—governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions—all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

In all known life, there are primarily twenty different amino acids. Stringing these twenty amino acids together in varied sequences produces varied proteins, just as intelligently stringing together the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet in varied sequences will produce varied sentences and sonnets.

Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us.

In fact, the more she thought about it, the more she wondered why blood relatives were given such importance in people's lives. The genetic lottery, which no one volunteered to play, spit you out wherever it did, without regard to compatibility, and yet somehow you were supposed to imbue that accident of procreation with all kinds of emotional weight and significance—simply because your parents managed to help you stay alive until you could get the fuck out of their house.

I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.

I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I'm her twin. I guess it would be the Kennedy genes; my cheekbones are coming out.

I've always been fascinated with twins.