Sam Harris Quotes

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

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

Genes themselves are made of bits.

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).

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

Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.

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

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

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

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.

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

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.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.