Animal Quote by Thomas Hunt Morgan

“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they…

— Rae Armantrout

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

— Dean Cavanagh

If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken…

— John Goodman

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an…

— Brand Blanshard

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from…

— Christopher Hitchens

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

— Valerie Solanas

Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed……

— Ronan O'Rahilly

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

— Robert Mankoff