Being Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

— Leroy Hood

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab…

— John Wilbanks

Your chromosomes have combined beautifully.

— Ramandeep Singh

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have…

— Richard Dawkins

“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand with opposite…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells…

— Lewis Thomas

Genes themselves are made of bits.

— James Gleick

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

— Francis Crick