Severo Ochoa Quotes

Genes themselves are made of bits.

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

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

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

Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited characteristics of every living thing. The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA).

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

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.

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.

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

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

Genes are natural resources.

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Your genome isn't really secret.

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