Biology Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— 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

“The circular flow of biological information - Genes encode RNAs to build Proteins to form/regulate Organisms that sense Environments that influence Proteins, RNA that…

— Siddharta 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

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

— Walter Gilbert

“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

“Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

— Matt Ridley

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer…

— David Baltimore

“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

“Genes were no longer mysterious embodiments of specificity, they were information – a code – that could be transmitted (another word from the electronic…

— Matthew Cobb