Genetics Quotes

“I'd lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.”

“The idea of a single gene determining a single behavioral trait is a vast oversimplification.”

“Only by a theory of the costs of meiosis and recombination can we hope to understand the ultimate function of sexual reproduction.”

“The notion that the molecule that carries the genetic information, RNA, could also be a catalyst was a transformative idea.”

“We did not know for a long time that there was an intermediary between DNA and protein, a messenger that is transient and that is used to translate the information.”

“We all have a little Neanderthal in us.”

“If we are right, and that's a big if, then it means that nucleic acids are not merely structurally important but functionally active substances in determining the biochemical activities and specific characteristics of cells.”

“The idea that we could change the human germ line was uppermost in our minds.”

“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain traits.”

“My blood is my father's blood. My DNA is my father's DNA. I'm a duplicate.”

“Soon we will have the complete sequence of the human genome, but what will we do with it?”

“A clone is a person with the same genes, not the same person.”

“Heredity is nothing but stored environment.”

“Genetics is going to be the basis of a new form of discrimination.”

“Evolution in general is a matter of mutation and selection, and what is true for the butterfly is true for man.”

“It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.”

“Weakness in any of the faculties of the mind is a recessive trait.”

“Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.”

“Heredity is not a destiny. It is a potentiality.”

“There is no doubt that genetics plays a major role in intelligence.”