Rna Quotes

“A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.”
― Frederick Sanger

“It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops.”
― Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

“Man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
― Matt Ridley (Charles Darwin)

“The plants here aren't like anything on Earth," I tried to explain one night. "They have cells I can't explain. On Earth, all seeds have one or two embryonic leaves, but here they have three or five or eight."

"And RNA," Grun said, "not DNA. Nothing has DNA except us.”
― Sue Burke, Semiosis