Genetic Mutation Quotes:

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

- Nina Fedoroff

source: "An Advocate for Science Diplomacy" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2008.

topic: Dna, Agriculture, People, Modification, Our Planet

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

- Daniel Nathans

topic: Mutation, Disease, Firsts, Genetic Mutation

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

- Robert Smithson

topic: Mutation, Advertising, Language, Genetic Mutation

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

- Rebecca Skloot

source: Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

topic: Cells, Viruses, Mutation, Genetic Mutation, Immortal Life

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

- William Glasser

topic: Fun, Freedom, Survival, Genetic Mutation

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

- Lynn Margulis

topic: Mutation, Taught, Accumulation, Genetic Mutation

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

- Nina Fedoroff

topic: Taken, Agriculture, People, Genetic Mutation, Genome

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

- Francis Crick

topic: Ideas, Acid, Mutation, Genetic Mutation, Amino Acids

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

- Lionel Trilling

source: 1965 Beyond Culture, introduction.

topic: Acceptance, Self, Mutation, Genetic Mutation, Subversive

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

- Laurie Garrett

source: "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

topic: Vaccines, Battle, Pandemics, Genetic Mutation

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.69, Psychology Press

topic: Yield, Mutation, Materialism, Genetic Mutation

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Baby, Couple, Opportunity, Typos, Genetic Mutation

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

- Francis Crick

topic: Together, Mutation, Maps, Genetic Mutation, Amino Acids

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.54, Vintage

topic: Color, Giving, Female, Genetic Mutation

If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Falling In Love, Guy, Feelings, Genetic Mutation

You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

- Unknown

topic: Real, Flying, Next Steps, Genetic Mutation

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

- David James Duncan

source: David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

topic: Spiritual, Lonely, Couple, Agribusiness, Spiritual Community

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

- James Lovelock

topic: Engineering, Worry, Mutation, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Mutation

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

- Laurie Glimcher

source: Source: to.pbs.org

topic: Cancer, Mutation, Arise, Genetic Mutation

The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

- Lynn Margulis

topic: Thinking, Wish, Mutation, Genetic Mutation