Caryl Churchill Quotes

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

When I get really down, I remember that we all share 99.99 per cent of our DNA with Beyonce. And suddenly, the world doesn't seem too bleak.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.

We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could even have a blood transfusion from a chimp, provided you have the same blood group.

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

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

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

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.

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

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

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.

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.