Quotes About Genetics

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Please don't wear skinny jeans, if you don't have any skinny genes.

As to the myth about Fat Girls and certain abilities to achieve multiple...ummm...my only comment on THAT topic, having both thin and fat and, also, coincidently a girl...is that it most likely has to do with genetics. And praise the Goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros that I know all about those good genetics.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.

machine-readable code written into human DNA

In fact, it is not impossible that one day the sperm-less fertilization of eggs — based on triggering the genetic code present in any cell of the body — will become a reality.[131]

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

In developing talent, hard work trumps genetics.

Both of you... what traits did you inherit from your mother?" "Oh. Hmm... I think I got all my bad traits from mother. But my fatal flaws are from father. " ...

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes, and

There was an invisible baton of failure her mother had passed down, and Nora had held it for a long time. Maybe that was why she had given up on so many things. Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

isoantigens—antigens within the same species.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.

Even more effective, however is to compare the results of adoption studies between fraternal (dizygotic or DZ) versus identical (monozygotic or MZ) twins.