Sam Kean Quotes

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

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.

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

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

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.

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

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

… the policy of genes

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.

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

It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, then the expression: gives the series for the progeny of plants hybrid in a pair of differing traits.

Genes are not destiny!

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

Genes are natural resources.

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

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

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

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

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

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