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The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually nothing of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.”

— Richard Dawkins

Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.,…

— Robert Sapolsky

“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action of the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role in determining…

— T. Colin Campbell

“gene (information -> encodes protein (form) -> enables function”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The third cardinal feature of gene regulation, Monod and Jacob discovered, was that every gene had specific regulatory DNA sequences appended to it that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

— Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

— Walter Gilbert