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  • This would be like women finding out Jesus had had a twin sister who'd gotten half God's genes but none of the glory.†   (source)
  • I suppose the genetic scientists are still hard at work trying to work the kinks out.†   (source)
  • Legally, she was his daughter; I had no way of proving otherwise, they hadn't invented all those genes and so forth, not yet.†   (source)
  • Genetics in Relation to Agriculture, by Babcock and Clausen.†   (source)
  • My father, having inherited the cautious and law-abiding genes in the family, could never quite gather the courage to join his older brother on these free movie escapades, even though he really, really wanted to see the films.†   (source)
  • Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water.†   (source)
  • At my most empathetic, I figured she suffered from some terrible genetic defect, and I hoped I hadn't inherited it.†   (source)
  • People are so wildly different, and it's hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive.†   (source)
  • Luckily, the Genetic Privacy Act made it illegal for IOI to sample my DNA.†   (source)
  • To his ears, when an animal felt the urge to mate, it said "Gregor Mendel", recalling the father of genetics, and when it was time to show its mettle, "Charles Darwin", the father of natural selection, and what we took to be bleating, grunting, hissing, snorting, roaring, growling, howling, chirping and screeching were but the thick accents of foreigners.†   (source)
  • We ruled out blood type, gender, physical size, intelligence factors, genetic markers-nothing seemed to account for the negatives.†   (source)
  • Maybe they're studying our brains and our reactions and our genes and everything else.†   (source)
  • Isn't there supposed to be some kind of genetic similarity there?†   (source)
  • Because an eye has to evolve from something else very like an eye and it doesn't just happen because of a genetic mistake, and what is the use of half an eye?†   (source)
  • My family's been here seven generations, and after that long a time I suppose it gets into your genes.†   (source)
  • YOU PULL DOWN ITS GENES!†   (source)
  • — it's just your mother's genes coming out in you!†   (source)
  • An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.†   (source)
  • I could not imagine a non-genetic child.†   (source)
  • Getting knocked around by genetic mutants?†   (source)
  • Space programs, genetic research, medicine-they all make mistakes.†   (source)
  • Even down to the genes.†   (source)
  • But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope.†   (source)
  • We are all imperfect genetic stews.†   (source)
  • Spivak says my unique status as a marvel of genetic aberration makes me an object of intense curiosity," he says in that lofty way of his.†   (source)
  • I think about what my mother said, about activating my genes and becoming Chinese.†   (source)
  • Sean was dressed in a plain white T-shirt that accentuated his strong-from-soccer chest and flat-from-good-genes stomach, dark blue Paper Denim jeans that made his butt look awesome, and ragged black Pumas.†   (source)
  • Genes, I have learned, do not make a family.†   (source)
  • What's really insane is how you peculiars hide from the world when you could rule it—succumb to death when you could dominate it—and let the common genetic trash of the human race drive you underground when you could so easily make them your slaves, as they rightly should be!"†   (source)
  • "Now you're not a genetic freak anymore."†   (source)
  • He doled out a constant stream of advice and counsel, all the time recording his findings in thick red volumes entitled Genetic Studies of Genius.†   (source)
  • Maybe the Korean genes scrambled everything.†   (source)
  • So, you know, genetics and all that.†   (source)
  • He was taller and heavier and stronger than I, and he had three or four generations of bricklaying genes in him, while I had only cane cutting in mine.†   (source)
  • Something natural, as if being on the water were beyond his control, part of a gene passed on to him from some obscure hereditary pool.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.†   (source)
  • It was all your genes that made us, Mom. said Peter.†   (source)
  • Apparently I'd inherited it from him and, who knew, maybe Grandpa Decker as well, this violent procreative disgust buzzing loudly in my bloodstream; it felt inborn, wired-in, genetic.†   (source)
  • It is created in a laboratory by adding genes to corn DNA.†   (source)
  • " Back in 10, he'd worked on one of the beef ranches, maintaining the genetic diversity of the herd with the implantation of long-frozen cow embryos.†   (source)
  • It is the strongest of dwarf urges, a genetic memory born from millennia spent tunnelling.†   (source)
  • My father, a biochemistry professor working on genetic mapping, had greater resources and opportunities to conduct research here.†   (source)
  • Beth lacked the sympathy gene.†   (source)
  • My favorite part was gene-recession charts.†   (source)
  • THE guys all made fun of me for my weak genes.†   (source)
  • I own half his genes, and all of his history.†   (source)
  • As a priest, I have spent enough time on backward worlds to see the effects of an ancient genetic disorder variously called Down's syndrome, mongolism, or generation-ship legacy.†   (source)
  • It is genetic, so old a code or command that it has become part of what sled dogs are; the fiber of their very being.†   (source)
  • Whatever zest and pep the other girls had that made them cartwheel, high kick, and smile constantly was missing in me, like a genetic or chemical malfunction.†   (source)
  • I have really good genes in that department.†   (source)
  • There is no provable genetic relationship between Sumerian and any tongue that came afterward.†   (source)
  • Although the current rise in obesity has a number of complex causes, genetics is not one of them.†   (source)
  • It's the Jewish-mother gene.†   (source)
  • The fact that he's excited about rocks hasn't had much genetic influence on me as far as I can tell, but what I see in the picture of him has.†   (source)
  • This death would penetrate, seep into the genes, show itself in bodies not yet born.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe Horus was giving me courage, or that maybe the past few days had finally woken up some dormant bravery gene I'd inherited from my parents.†   (source)
  • As though something in their family genes had bestowed on them compulsory bumps that appeared randomly on different parts of their bodies.†   (source)
  • When they were growing up, she used to tease Josh that he got all the doing genes, whereas she got the thinking genes.†   (source)
  • Your family genetic heritage, your specific DNA, your metabolic uniqueness, the quantum stuff that is going on at a subatomic level where only I am the always-present observer.†   (source)
  • Matching for healthy genes can only take us so far.†   (source)
  • "Before the simulation attack, part of the Abnegation aid effort involved testing the factionless for a certain genetic anomaly," she says.†   (source)
  • The kind of guys who were born without the fear gene, impervious to pain.†   (source)
  • "The radiation might have mutated the genetic material hundreds of years ago, but there wouldn't be any trace of it now."†   (source)
  • "The genetic lines are always in our records," she said.†   (source)
  • "That the genetic quirk which allowed the transmutation had been lost…… " He broke off and stared at me accusingly.†   (source)
  • The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself.†   (source)
  • It was in their genes and in their job description.†   (source)
  • Darwin a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes Hilde was awakened on Sunday morning by a loud bump.†   (source)
  • They blamed the flaw on intermarriage with the family, however, not on the original genes of the decaying lord.†   (source)
  • A third layer of nativeness was composed of those who others thought directly descended, even in the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa to this continent centuries ago as slaves.†   (source)
  • All men seek immortality in their own way, either through a legacy of children carrying their name and genetic material, through architecture, through science, and this now is simply my search for a legacy like no other.†   (source)
  • Chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes—gloved hands and machines routinely reaching into bodies and making diagnoses and corrections, so much of human frailty on the one hand and boldness on the other.†   (source)
  • Harriet probably got more of her genes from her mother rather than from Gottfried.†   (source)
  • It should be emphasized that the hemophilia gene may be carried recessively in the male as a part of his genetic make-up.†   (source)
  • I start having doubts about my genes.†   (source)
  • Bad genes.†   (source)
  • Because you wanted to pass along the finely tuned genetic blueprint of my bloodline.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he was another of the many genetic aberrations I had seen in Moody's intermarried family.†   (source)
  • Guys fight because of some primal, innate gene that makes them prove themselves physically.†   (source)
  • ruffled, freckled face (Thank God I missed that recessive gene!†   (source)
  • Viruses fall apart under ultraviolet light, which smashes their genetic material and makes them unable to replicate.†   (source)
  • Leo, dead now for almost a year, had been fond of muttering this, and Caroline had always been astonished: not so much that he'd seen a genetic connection where none could exist but that anyone would define her as a woman with a temper.†   (source)
  • He enumerated the names of famous Charleses in order to stir up genetic ambition in the boy.†   (source)
  • I pegged him as my Dean Moriarty and was happy he showed up with his wild genetic ideas.†   (source)
  • And what weight should we assign each of the many inputs that affect a child's outcome: genes, family environment, socioeconomic level, schooling, discrimination, luck, illness, and so on?†   (source)
  • There's some evidence that decisions about childbearing reflect deep-seated tensions between men and women about strategies to pass on their genes.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Hard Tack's raging temper had also come out in the genetic wash.†   (source)
  • We even talked about the ethics of modern obstetrics, where couples can now find out in advance if their baby will have a genetic disorder, and often abort the baby if they find out it's so.†   (source)
  • Standing before a crowd of hundreds, seven-year-old Savannah demonstrated that the fearless gene ran strong in her when she gave her father one final gift.†   (source)
  • They were speedy and graceful, bequeathed the genetic wherewithal to sprint up technical pitches at high altitude.†   (source)
  • They must have gotten their genes from their dad.†   (source)
  • The other part is a genetic fact—vampyres don't get drunk—fledglings can barely get buzzed (at least on alcohol—blood, unfortunately, is a whole other issue).†   (source)
  • If we don't we'll pass our anger down in our genes.†   (source)
  • Clara decided that if craziness can repeat itself in a family, then there must be a genetic memory that prevents it from being swallowed by oblivion.†   (source)
  • It was an undeniable genetic truth.†   (source)
  • Clearly they hadn't inherited the observant gene, because the expression on my face made it pretty damn obvious that I wasn't in the mood to be swept off my feet.†   (source)
  • Oh God, I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend.†   (source)
  • She knew it was in my genes.†   (source)
  • As usual, the leopard genes were expressed in some unexpected ways.†   (source)
  • The company, which specialized in vaccines and genetic research, had plants in several countries but was headquartered in Bangkok, where it had operated without the restrictions often hampering domestic pharmaceutical companies.†   (source)
  • He was a judge, as open, tolerant, and fair-minded as he could possibly be, given his upbringing and genetic composition.†   (source)
  • We Never Go Away DENNIS DOWNEY I believe in genes and a forward flow of time, and in all things visible and invisible.†   (source)
  • "Surely you can take genetic information," I suggested.†   (source)
  • With all our technology, with the amazing advances that have been made in genetics, we are still unable to control human virtues and flaws.†   (source)
  • It is a thing in my blood, in my genes, like blond hair and blue eyes.†   (source)
  • His excessive drinking he accepted, and excused as genetic.†   (source)
  • Now Annie, with no such excuse, felt herself propelled by pitiless genes to replicate the pattern with Grace.†   (source)
  • It's a genetic trait, like his widow's peak and his slow brown eyes and the job he inherited at the post office.†   (source)
  • We study their genetic structure.†   (source)
  • Some people can sense a vye in a heartbeat; something about it triggers a response in their genetic memory and they know a predator is near.†   (source)
  • NICK: This genetic business you're talking about ….†   (source)
  • Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.†   (source)
  • Aristocrats in Charleston, like aristocrats the world over, had proven the dangers of sipping from the genetic cup without a sense of recklessness or a gambler's eye for the proper stranger.†   (source)
  • Was it genes or magick? she wondered.†   (source)
  • At times they made a little too much of the family quirks—of both Amanda and Jeannie marrying men named Hugh, for instance, so that their husbands were referred to as "Amanda's Hugh" and "Jeannie's Hugh"; or their genetic predisposition for lying awake two hours in the middle of every night; or their uncanny ability to keep their dogs alive for eons.†   (source)
  • I'm always fascinated by how the same genes rearrange themselves across brothers and sisters.†   (source)
  • It's in their genetic makeup to fly there.†   (source)
  • Grandpaw doesn't figure in genetic angle—these days his interest in women is more gallant than practical.†   (source)
  • But Willie has enough of Kay's social gene in him to get the job done.†   (source)
  • Or one race, because there are genetic differences.†   (source)
  • "Quality genes, you know," she joked.†   (source)
  • My theory is that the guy missed Mongolian idiocy by the breadth of a genetic hair.†   (source)
  • Not to remain reined up for ever in those particular genetic strings?†   (source)
  • "Certainly some human genetic damage can be expected," Dan said.†   (source)
  • I wondered if she was not protected by some genetic or cultural adaptation to alcohol which Slavic people seem to share with the Celts.†   (source)
  • Some sort of genetic damage.†   (source)
  • The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?†   (source)
  • Long ago there were genetic mutations, like albinos, but those don't exist anymore.†   (source)
  • "I have up to a twenty percent chance of inheriting my mother's genes."†   (source)
  • It's in the bloodstream — the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.†   (source)
  • The two men agreed to found a commercial company to exploit Boyer's gene-splicing techniques.†   (source)
  • For the sake of future generations, we must contain this genetic mistake at all costs!†   (source)
  • Modern gene therapists use it for this purpose.†   (source)
  • David got his hair gene from his dad and his eye gene from his mom.†   (source)
  • The new genes don't come from corn plants.†   (source)
  • Only queen-killing, really, is murder, because only queen-killing closes off a genetic path.†   (source)
  • My transformation has been genetic; Du's was hyphenated.†   (source)
  • And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue.†   (source)
  • Josh looked like the Korean genes had skipped him altogether.†   (source)
  • But each and every of us is also a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes.†   (source)
  • It's something, at least in part, that's in your genes.†   (source)
  • Because we reach full growth inside of a few months when the werewolf gene gets triggered.†   (source)
  • Did his mot her consume some kind of gene-piercing substance when she was pregnant?†   (source)
  • AIs don't like to waste things, so I imagine the genetic material's recycled somehow.†   (source)
  • He discovered one of the genes that creates resistance.†   (source)
  • By means of a brilliant splice, incorporating genetic material from ….†   (source)
  • She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.†   (source)
  • Chang had used those cells to discover enzymes and genes specific to liver cells.†   (source)
  • But it was for the genetic purposes of the Bene Gesserit, by one of you.†   (source)
  • We get half our genes from our mother and half from our father.†   (source)
  • The desire to eat meat may be an instinct, something that is in our genes.†   (source)
  • Some of these characteristics—or genes—are 'activated' and others are 'deactivated.'†   (source)
  • Hoods are automated gene sequencers-machines that work out the genetic code by themselves.†   (source)
  • You have the same genes, the same parents, how can he be so bad if.†   (source)
  • He was a famous, famous man, he trained most of the other famous medical geneticists in the world.†   (source)
  • It is capable of carrying new genes into existing neurons and genetically reengineering them.†   (source)
  • When they fused, the genetic material from the two cells combined, as with sperm meeting egg.†   (source)
  • Our genes won't let us decide any other way.†   (source)
  • So with human help, corn can now take genes from other plants and animals.†   (source)
  • But each and every one o us is also a ship sailing through life with a cargo of genes.†   (source)
  • The boxes along the walls are all Hamachi-Hood automated gene sequencers.†   (source)
  • I inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism.†   (source)
  • And those genetic tests would eventually lead them to Henrietta's family.†   (source)
  • Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future.†   (source)
  • All we wanted is a few tubes of blood and to do genetic marker test.†   (source)
  • " 'Basiliscus amoratus with three-toed genetic anomaly,' " she said, reading.†   (source)
  • The geneticists at the conference were thrilled.†   (source)
  • And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power.†   (source)
  • He didn't know how it worked yet, but his discovery showed that something in cells regulated genes.†   (source)
  • Just a few recent combinations of the old genes-and not much of that.†   (source)
  • By doing this, they helped make it possible to study what genes do, and how they work.†   (source)
  • So Lewis Dodgson, the geneticist responsible for the test, was still working at Biosyn.†   (source)
  • His genetic database, now called OMIM, can be found at ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/omim/.†   (source)
  • Sattler mentioned you do some genetic work here…… " "Well, not exactly," Grant said.†   (source)
  • Genetic research continues, at a more furious pace than ever.†   (source)
  • Because intact genetic material from dinosaurs was more likely to be recovered from cold climates?†   (source)
  • We've inserted genes to make them patentable, and to make them lysine dependent.†   (source)
  • Yet, a bare decade after the bomb, we began to have genetic power.†   (source)
  • Norman always said you're the best geneticist in his lab," he said.†   (source)
  • New companies were announced almost weekly, and scientists flocked to exploit genetic research.†   (source)
  • The geneticist simply put a drop of each on the fingernails of one hand, and walked out the door.†   (source)
  • It is equally unsurprising that the genetic crisis it created should go unreported.†   (source)
  • Peculiarness is determined by genes, not geography.†   (source)
  • A sign on the first fence reads BUREAU OF GENETIC WELFARE.†   (source)
  • It's probably one of those-what do they call them, recessive genes?†   (source)
  • I'm talking about being a genetic dead end, Jacob.†   (source)
  • I feel the ancient yearning for fire embedded deep in my genes.†   (source)
  • Dwight, who carried soldier in his genes.†   (source)
  • Will never confess that my son [can evil be genetic?†   (source)
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