Change Quote by Matthew Cobb

“the transforming principle could not be made of DNA because nucleic acids were all alike. As”

— Matthew Cobb

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as…

— Anonymous

“By the end of the 1940s, it was widely known that the levels of protein in the transforming principle were effectively zero.”

— Matthew Cobb

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“If the adaptor hypothesis were true (and it was), this meant that the role of DNA and RNA would be reduced to simply carrying…

— Matthew Cobb

“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.”

— Richard Dawkins

A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

“here’s a highly simplified version of the next chapter’s focus on genes: (a) each gene specifies the production of a specific type of protein;…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

— Salma Hayek

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee