Biology Quote by Kenneth Eade

When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because…

— Pamela Ronald

“Sounds good, Roberta admitted, joining in a round of polite applause. Her initial gut response to this whole gene-tampering business had been one of…

— Greg Cox

A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to…

— Cynthia Kenyon

“So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.”

— James Gleick

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because…

— Nina Fedoroff

Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

— Michael Pollan

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

— Roger Spottiswoode

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

— Thomas Lovejoy

“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role…

— Melaku Worede

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building…

— Iain McGilchrist