Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

~ Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley Behavior Free Will Genes Stress

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

~ Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley Biology Cells Genes Genetics Genome

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

~ Edwin Grant Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin Atoms Biology Genes Life Molecules Organization Science Scientist Symbiosis Synthesis Zoologist

A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

~ Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger Biology Chemistry Dna Features Genes Genome Nobel Laureate Organism Proteins Rapid Rna Science Simple

Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

~ Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan Biology Chromosomes Genes Genetics Inheritance Neo Darwinism Nobel Laureate Science

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

~ Steve Erickson

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