Monica Hesse Quotes

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

My genetic makeup is a little bit crazy.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

We used to think that our destiny is in the stars. Now we know that its in our genes, in our DNA.

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

Genes themselves are made of bits.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Genes are natural resources.

We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

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

One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.