Quotes About Genetics

Apparently, this girl is made from me. She comes from me. She has half my genes, half my toxins, half my talents, she is in me. What of me will she shed, what will she find herself tacked to?

We change our DNA through the intoned word.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Every creature born in the flesh carried the genes of an ancestor who had lived through the most savage punishment this would could inflict.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

biology has become an information science

Acceptând ideea c? suntem consecinÈ›a unui amestec subtil de forÈ›e ereditare È™i factori de mediu, reducem persoana uman? la un simplu rezultat.

Life hurts, and sometimes it hurts a great deal. We are extraordinarily flexible, possess genetic programming to survive, even prevail, and we gain resilience as we age, and yet we still hurt easily.

Unless you are familiar with the nature of Southern white trash, you will not understand the following: They are a genetically produced breed whose commonality is a state of mind and not related to the social class to which they belong. Economics has nothing to do with their origins or their behavior. You cannot change them. They glory in violence and cruelty and brag on their ignorance, and would have no problem manning the ovens at Auschwitz. That's not hyperbole.

Their mothers were nobodies, Marian (Max's mom) said. Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of trash . Well, you're right there, I said. Because we are a superrace. And I did come from trash .

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

The thing is, the "scientists" back at the School had been playing with risky stuff, combining human and nonhuman DNA. Basically, the spliced genes started to unravel after a while, and the organisms tended to, well, self-destruct. The flock and I had seen it happen a million times: The rabbit-dog combo had been such bad news. Same with the sheep-macaque monkey splice. The mouse-cat experiment had produced a huge, hostile mouse with great balance and an inability to digest either

I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.

If you get three women and a dog together and they all mate together they're not gonna have a baby