Quotes About Genetics

our individual differences are a product of our environment or the result of genetic inheritance.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off,

One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior—surely one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century. In

Could she give Doro what he wanted—what she herself had wanted for so long—children who would not die?

psychiatrists who believe the illness is largely genetic find hard to explain: at least 20 per cent of schizophrenics completely recover, most of them able to live their lives without any drug treatment at all. A telling example of a recovered schizophrenic is Rufus May. Not only did he become wholly sane but, having done so, he trained as a clinical psychologist and now treats schizophrenics in a community project

Lorsque la semence provient du testicule droit, les fils ressemblent à leur père, et du testicule gauche, à leur mère.

But anyone who'd ever been to Tito's Tacos and tasted a warm cupful of the greasy, creamy, refried frijole slop covered in a solid half-inch of melted cheddar cheese knew the bean had already reached genetic perfection.

We're genetically pulled to people who radiate warmth, honesty and compassion. We're repelled by external presentations of perfection…The perfection of others makes us feel inadequate.

Given that dogs and wolves are virtually indistinguishable genetically, the enormous variation in body size and shape in the dog is truly remarkable.

Children born to dads over age thirty were found to be almost an inch taller, on average, than those born to fathers under thirty.

As our knowledge of DNA expands, and our expertise in genetic manipulation increases, the concept of humanity may well become redundant.

Your biological parents give you their genes, the map of your physical self. But whoever raises you makes you who you are, for better or for worse. Family dynamics are acted out, not built in, though someday scientists might prove otherwise.

produce new species. One set of parents can produce offspring

I can trace her bloodline right back to Arabians on Earth from the mid-nineteenth century. She's as pure as they come. Not an artificial sequence in her whole genome;

Rhesus monkeys (Suomi 2000) that individuals who carry the "short" allele of the 5-HTT gene are significantly more severely affected by maternal deprivation than are individuals with the "long" allele

They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

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they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.