Quotes About Genetics

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.

One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

With my genetics, you have to be careful of doing too much cardio. I'm an ectomorph and you can lose a lot of size quickly if you overdo it on cardio.

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

DNA is now a reality. Reproductive

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Every HiveWing had at least a few black scales, inherited from their common ancestor, Clearsight,

Our genetic superiority will manifest wherever this dragonet hatches and however it is raised.

Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.

I know the names of every intelligent being, the spots on the wings of every butterfly that broke out of a cocoon, the genetic codes of the simplest and most complex of creatures. I know how suns functioned, how worlds formed, how life evolved. All of the secrets of the old universes are mine. They can be yours too, if you want me to share, though I suspect you aren't bothered.

only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.

Every single human cell contains DNA, which is a special molecule that your body leaves behind at crime scenes so the police can identify you.

His parents' pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. Winston Churchill in a letter to Prime Minister Asquith, advocating the forced sterilisation of disabled people

In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.

Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown.

The only way to conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Darwin's great gift to science was simplifying all life to pure mathematics: your one and only goal on earth is multiplication. Everything you do, every instinct you have, is an evolutionary urge to make babies and leave behind as many copies of yourself as possible. From that perspective, heroism makes no sense. Why risk the grave for someone else if there's no guarantee of a biological payoff? Dying for your own kids: smart. Dying for a rival's? Genetic suicide.

The reason some people use their genetic gift for running and others don't is because the brain is a bargain shopper.

Who can say how heredity and environment and disability come together?