All 49 Uses of
gene
in
Jurassic Park
- It is remarkable that nearly every scientist in genetics research is also engaged in the commerce of biotechnology.†
Chpt 1
- Research in molecular genetics had become a vast, multibillion dollar commercial undertaking, and its origins can be traced not to 1953 but to April 1976.†
Chpt 1
- The two men agreed to found a commercial company to exploit Boyer's gene-splicing techniques.†
Chpt 1
- New companies were announced almost weekly, and scientists flocked to exploit genetic research.†
Chpt 1
- Genetic research continues, at a more furious pace than ever.†
Chpt 1
- In this commercial climate, it is probably inevitable that a company as ambitious as International Genetic Technologies, Inc., of Palo Alto, would arise.†
Chpt 1
- It is equally unsurprising that the genetic crisis it created should go unreported.†
Chpt 1
- Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in San Francisco Superior Court on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention.†
Chpt 1
- " 'Basiliscus amoratus with three-toed genetic anomaly,' " she said, reading.†
Chpt 3
- It was brief: — SUBJECT: Basiliscus amoratus with genetic anomaly (forwarded from Dr. Simpson's office) MATERIALS: posterior segment, ? partially eaten animal PROCEDURES PERFORMED.†
Chpt 3
- Bones too fragmentary when we took them out of the ground, In the old days we'd just discard them, but nowadays we send them for genetic testing.†
Chpt 5
- Genetic testing?†
Chpt 5
- Hoods are automated gene sequencers-machines that work out the genetic code by themselves.†
Chpt 5
- In 1986, Genetic Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino tested a bioengineered rabies vaccine on a farm in Chile.†
Chpt 5
- So Lewis Dodgson, the geneticist responsible for the test, was still working at Biosyn.†
Chpt 5
- And other American companies were hurrying to set up facilities in foreign countries that lacked sophistication about genetic research.†
Chpt 5
- Sattler mentioned you do some genetic work here…… " "Well, not exactly," Grant said.†
Chpt 5
- The reason was apparently genetic: the male had evolved to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, and by killing the cubs he brought all the females into heat, so that he could impregnate them.†
Chpt 7
- The reason was apparently genetic: the male had evolved to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, and by killing the cubs he brought all the females into heat, so that he could impregnate them.†
Chpt 7
- The elephant was always a rousing success; its tiny body, hardly bigger than a cat's, promised untold wonders to come from the laboratory of Norman Atherton, the Stanford geneticist who was Hammond's partner in the new venture.†
Chpt 8
- For example, Hammond was starting a genetics company, but the tiny elephant hadn't been made by any genetic procedure; Atherton had simply taken a dwarf-elephant embryo and raised it in an artificial womb with hormonal modifications.†
Chpt 8
- For example, Hammond was starting a genetics company, but the tiny elephant hadn't been made by any genetic procedure; Atherton had simply taken a dwarf-elephant embryo and raised it in an artificial womb with hormonal modifications.†
Chpt 8
- Between September of 1983 and November of 1985, John Alfred Hammond and his "Pachyderm Portfolio" raised $870 million in venture capital to finance his proposed corporation, International Genetic Technologies, Inc. And they could have raised more, except Hammond insisted on absolute secrecy, and he offered no return on capital for at least five years.†
Chpt 8
- Depending on who you talked to, Lewis Dodgson was famous as the most aggressive geneticist of his generation, or the most reckless.†
Chpt 10
- Genetic material had already been extracted from Egyptian mummies, and from the hide of a quagga, a zebra-like African animal that had become extinct in the 1880s.†
Chpt 10
- A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme,
Chpt 11 *genes = single segments of DNA (combine to determine inherited traits)
- In 1987, he convinced a disgruntled geneticist to quit Cetus for Biosyn, and take five strains of engineered bacteria with her.†
Chpt 11
- The geneticist simply put a drop of each on the fingernails of one hand, and walked out the door.†
Chpt 11
- Although this particular person had no access to genetic material, Dodgson kept up the contact, meeting the man monthly at Carlos and Charlie's in Silicon Valley, helping him in small ways.†
Chpt 11
- The awesome power of the new genetic technology, which he had formerly considered to he just so many words in an overwrought sales pitch-the power suddenly became clear to him.†
Chpt 14
- All the modern genetic technology was useless, It was like having a Xerox copier but nothing to copy with it.†
Chpt 15
- Dr. Wu is our chief geneticist.†
Chpt 17
- Genetics is a bit complicated.†
Chpt 17
- The boxes along the walls are all Hamachi-Hood automated gene sequencers.†
Chpt 17
- In essence, you are standing in the middle of an incredibly powerful genetics factory.†
Chpt 17
- But by computer analysis we're working with something like five hundred variables: one hundred and twenty environmental, another two hundred intra-egg, and the rest from the genetic material itself.†
Chpt 17
- A releaser gene isn't operating.†
Chpt 18
- I inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism.†
Chpt 18
- We've inserted genes to make them patentable, and to make them lysine dependent.†
Chpt 19
- Norman always said you're the best geneticist in his lab," he said.†
Chpt 19
- If you want to do something important in computers or genetics, you don't go to a university.†
Chpt 19
- And for the last two years, Wu had been primarily an administrator, supervising teams of researchers and banks of computer-operated gene sequencers.†
Chpt 19
- Because, if the dinosaurs were in fact breeding, then everything about Jurassic Park was called into question-their genetic development methods, their genetic control methods, everything.†
Chpt 31
- Because, if the dinosaurs were in fact breeding, then everything about Jurassic Park was called into question-their genetic development methods, their genetic control methods, everything.†
Chpt 31
- Just a few recent combinations of the old genes-and not much of that.†
Chpt 32
- I'm in the genetics lab with Dr. Wu.†
Chpt 41
- Yet, a bare decade after the bomb, we began to have genetic power.†
Chpt 43
- And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power.†
Chpt 43
- Because intact genetic material from dinosaurs was more likely to be recovered from cold climates?†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(gene) a single segment of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits such as hair color or height