Craig Venter Quotes

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.

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

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

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

These signal diversities which constitute differences of race in animals... can only be explained by two principles... namely, the occasional production of an offspring with different characters from those of the parents, as a native or congenital variety; and the propagation of such varieties by generation.

I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.

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.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

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

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.

Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

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

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

Genes are natural resources.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

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.