142.
“It was discovered as far back as 1869 . . .” Ridley, Genome, p. 48.
“DNA didn’t do anything at all . . .” Wallace et al., Biology: The Science of Life, p. 211.
“The necessary complexity, it was thought . . .” De Duve, vol. 2, p. 295.
“Working out of a small lab . . .” Clark, The Survival of Charles Darwin, p. 259.
“no consensus ‘as to what the genes are’ . . .” Keller, p. 2.
“we are in much the same position today . . .” Wallace et al., p. 211.
“worth two Nobel Prizes . . .” Maddox, Rosalind Franklin, p. 327.
“not to give Avery a Nobel Prize.” White, Rivals, p. 251.
“a member of a highly popular radio program called The Quiz Kids . . .” Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation, p. 46.
“without my learning any chemistry . . .” Watson, The Double Helix, p. 28.
“the results of which were obtained ‘fortuitously’ . . .” Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits, p. 356.
“In a severely unflattering portrait . . .” Watson, The Double Helix, p. 26.
“in the summer of 1952 she posted a mock notice . . .” White, Rivals, p. 257; and Maddox, p. 185.
“apparently without her knowledge or consent.” PBS website, “A Science Odyssey,” undated.
“Years later Watson conceded. . .” Quoted in Maddox, p. 317.
“a 900-word article by Watson and Crick titled ‘A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.’ ” De Duve, vol. 2, p. 290.
“It received a small mention in the News Chronicle . . .” Ridley, Genome, p. 50.
“Franklin rarely wore a lead apron . . .” Maddox, p. 144.
“It took over twenty-five years . . .” Crick, What Mad Pursuit, p. 74.
“That Was the Molecular Biology That Was.” Keller, p. 25.
“rather like the keys of a piano . . .” National Geographic, “Secrets of the Gene,” October 1995, p. 55.
“Guanine, for instance, is the same stuff . . .” Pollack, p. 23.
“you could say all humans share nothing . . .” Discover, “Bad Genes, Good Drugs,” April 2002, p. 54.
“they are good at getting themselves duplicated.” Ridley, Genome, p. 127.
“Altogether, almost half of human genes . . .” Woolfson, p. 18.
“Empires fall, ids explode . . .” Nuland, p. 158.
“Here were two creatures . . .” BBC Horizon, “Hopeful Monsters,” first transmitted 1998.
“At least 90 percent correlate at some level . . .” Nature, “Sorry, Dogs-Man’s Got a New Best Friend,” December 19-26, 2002, p. 734.
“We even have the same genes for making a tail . . .” Los Angeles Times (reprinted in Valley News), December 9, 2002.
“dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning “similar”) . . .” BBC Horizon, “Hopeful Monsters,” first transmitted 1998.
“We have forty-six chromosomes . . .” Gribbin and Cherfas, p. 53.
“The lungfish, one of the least evolved . . .” Schopf, p. 240.
“Perhaps the apogee (or nadir) . . .” Lewontin, p. 215.
“How fast a man’s beard grows . . .” Wall Street Journal, “What Distinguishes Us from the Chimps? Actually, Not Much,” April 12, 2002, p. 1.
“the proteome is much more complicated than the genome.” Scientific American, “Move Over, Human Genome,” April 2002, pp. 44-45.
“they will allow themselves to be phosphorylated, glycosylated, acetylated, ubiquitinated . .
