Evolution Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— Peter R. Grant

“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

“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

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role in determining…

— T. Colin Campbell

“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, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

The gene as the basis of life.

— Hermann Joseph Muller

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

— Jeffrey C. Hall