181 Quotes About Dna


  • Author Charles Darwin
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    Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

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  • Author Allan Pease Barbara Pease
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    Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found in their bodies can also be found inside a pig or a horse or that our DNA is 97. 5% identical to that of a gorilla and 98. 4% to that of a chimpanzee. The only thing that makes us different from other animals is our ability to think and make forward plans.

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  • Author Sam Kean
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    So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn’t touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder—the famed double helix.

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  • Author Johnny Rich
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    The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.

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  • Author Brian Acton
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    Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

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