Biology Quote by Siddharta Mukherjee

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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 that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

— Peter R. Grant

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered an enzyme found in retroviruses that could build DNA from an RNA template. They called the enzyme reverse…

— 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

“Thus transcription factors regulate genes. What regulates transcription factors? The answer devastates the concept of genetic determinism: the environment.”

— 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

“Storing information as a story, linked with causality, could help meet the biological need to efficiently store, retrieve, and reduce the dimensionality of information.”

— Rich Jolly

The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing…

— James Gleick

“DNA directs the construction of strings of chemicals; those chemicals influence the configuration of the whole organism; that configuration influences how likely it is…

— Bill Nye