If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson 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
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
“She's not trying to make Radiasure, Fi. Allie is trying to cure mutations.” — Natalie Whipple Copy Share Image
“Back to mutations. Can there be mutations in DNA stretches constituting promoters? Yes,” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense… — Lawrence M. Krauss 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
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler 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
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are… — Gary Wolf 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
“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
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a… — Mark Stoneking Copy Share Image
In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I… — Arca Copy Share Image
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Evolution wasn’t a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. And the doctor knew those… — Evan C. Currie Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
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