Genetics Quotes - Page 2

• The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

  Wilhelm Johannsen

  Science, Balance, Transition

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

  Andre Agassi

  Baby, Thinking, Bucks

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• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Character, Dishonesty

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• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Ink

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• I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

  Kathy Najimy

  Believe, Play, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

  Anna Paquin

  Work Out, Kind, Maniacs

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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Today, Phobia

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• No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

  E. O. Wilson

  Survival, Mind, Technique

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• Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.

  Oswald Avery

  Character, Mean, Cells

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• The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

  Leon Kass

  Infancy Is, Important, Neuroscience

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• Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

  Leon Kass

  Brain, Mind, Crude

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• There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Yaks, Geek

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• I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Views, Would Be

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• I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Attitude, Lying, Mean

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• With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Years, Vaccines, Viruses

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• If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, then the expression: gives the series for the progeny of plants hybrid in a pair of differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Expression, Two, Giving

  Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.96, Rutgers University Press

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• We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

  Robert Winston

  Understanding, Important, Influence

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• When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Hands, Two

  Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.69, Rutgers University Press

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• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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• The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential.

  Greg Plitt

  Winning, Differences, Losing

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• The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

  Moby

  Hair, Interesting, Blame

  "One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

  Jenna Jameson

  Parent, Age, Matter

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• A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Important, Foundation, Solid Foundation

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• Good genetics are a start, but I have to go to the gym, look after my skin, and drink lots of water. It's my job to take care of myself and my body. Happiness plays a big part in your appearance too.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Jobs, Play, Water

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