Biology Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It was coursing…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the nature and…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification…

— Jacques Monod

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

— Matthew Cobb

“The gene responsible for creating white eyes (called white eyed), for instance, was inescapably linked to maleness: no matter how Morgan crossed his flies,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

— Warren Weaver

“Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“DNA was the chemical material on which hereditary information was recorded, while a gene was one unit of that nearly infinite amount of hereditary…

— Koji Suzuki

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers—passageways—for genes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“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