First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from,… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“A mutation that reverses the effect of a previous one (called a back mutation) could at one stroke revive a complex function… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step.… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?” — Koji Suzuki Copy Share Image
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
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