All 50 Uses
gene
in
Jurassic Park
(Edited)
- It is remarkable that nearly every scientist in genetics research is also engaged in the commerce of biotechnology.
p. x.4genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. xi.1
- The two men agreed to found a commercial company to exploit Boyer's gene-splicing techniques.
p. xi.2gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
- New companies were announced almost weekly, and scientists flocked to exploit genetic research.
p. xi.4genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- Genetic research continues, at a more furious pace than ever.
p. xi.9
- In this commercial climate, it is probably inevitable that a company as ambitious as International Genetic Technologies, Inc., of Palo Alto, would arise.
p. xii.1
- It is equally unsurprising that the genetic crisis it created should go unreported.
p. xii.1
- Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in United States Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention.
p. xii.3
- " 'Basiliscus amoratus with three-toed genetic anomaly,' " she said, reading.
p. 26.3
- It was brief: subject: Basiliscus amoratus with genetic anomaly (forwarded from Dr. Simpson's office) materials: posterior segment, ?
p. 26.9
- In the old days we'd just discard them, but nowadays we send them for genetic testing.
p. 37.1
- Genetic testing?
p. 37.1
- Hoods are automated gene sequencers—machines that work out the genetic code by themselves.
p. 42.8gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
- In 1986, Genetic Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino tested a bio-engineered rabies vaccine on a farm in Chile.
p. 43.3genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- So Lewis Dodgson, the geneticist responsible for the test, was still working at Biosyn.
p. 43.9geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- And other American companies were hurrying to set up facilities in foreign countries that lacked sophistication about genetic research.
p. 43.9genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- "Dr. Sattler mentioned you do some genetic work here...."
p. 44.8
- 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.
p. 63.4
- ...the male had evolved to disseminate his genes as widely as possible,
p. 63.4 *genes = DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 65.3geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 65.4genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 65.4genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 66.3
- Depending on who you talked to, Lewis Dodgson was famous as the most aggressive geneticist of his generation, or the most reckless.
p. 71.8geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- Genetic material had already been extracted from Egyptian mummies, and from the hide of a quagga, a zebralike African animal that had become extinct in the 1880s.
p. 73.9genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme,
p. 76.5genes = DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- In 1987, he convinced a disgruntled geneticist to quit Cetus for Biosyn, and take five strains of engineered bacteria with her.
p. 76.7geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- The geneticist simply put a drop of each on the fingernails of one hand, and walked out the door.
p. 76.8
- 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.
p. 77.2genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- The awesome power of the new genetic technology, which he had formerly considered to be just so many words in an overwrought sales pitch—the power suddenly became clear to him.
p. 88.7
- All the modern genetic technology was useless.
p. 95.4
- This Laboratory Conforms to USG P4/EK3 Genetic Protocols
p. 109.1
- Dr. Wu is our chief geneticist.
p. 110.7geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- Genetics is a bit complicated.
p. 110.8genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- The boxes along the walls are all Hamachi-Hood automated gene sequencers.
p. 112.7gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
- In essence, you are standing in the middle of an incredibly powerful genetics factory.
p. 112.9genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 119.2genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- A releaser gene isn't operating.
p. 124.5gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
- I inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism.
p. 126.8
- We've inserted genes to make them patentable, and to make them lysine dependent.
p. 137.1genes = DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- "Norman always said you're the best geneticist in his lab," he said.
p. 138.8geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- If you want to do something important in computers or genetics, you don't go to a university.
p. 139.3genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- And for the last two years, Wu had been primarily an administrator, supervising teams of researchers and banks of computer-operated gene sequencers.
p. 140.6gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
- 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.
p. 220.9genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- 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.
p. 220.9
- Just a few recent combinations of the old genes—and not much of that.
p. 233.7genes = DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- I'm in the genetics lab with Dr. Wu.
p. 293.6genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- Yet, a bare decade after the bomb, we began to have genetic power.
p. 351.5genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
- And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power.
p. 351.5
- Because intact genetic material from dinosaurs was more likely to be recovered from cold climates?
p. 447.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(gene as in: the gene impacts eye color) a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, Gene can be a person's name.