Chromosomes Quotes

“Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

“Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.”
― Thomas Hunt Morgan

“Throughout this book I will refer to both sex and gender. By 'sex', I mean the biological characteristics that determine whether an individual is male or female , XX and XY. By 'gender', I mean the social meanings we impose upon those biological facts. The way women are treated because they are perceived to be female. One is man-made, but both are real and both have significant consequences for women as they navigate this world constructed on male data. But although I talk about both sex and gender throughout, I use 'Gender Data Gap' as an overarching term. Because sex is not the reason women are excluded from data - gender is”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Absolutely, women just love cleaning because it's in our 'female DNA'—right next to the 'loves pink' gene.”
― Anubha Saxena

“Biologically speaking, the character of an animal depends on its chromosomal content, not on its size, shape, age, or stage of development. Any organism with the chromosomes and genes proper to a human being can be nothing less than a human being. Human life exists only in human beings, and all human beings are persons.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“The pronoun that identifies you is the one stitched through your DNA, not the one woven through your imagination.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God gave man two chromosomes, XY but to a woman only one chromosome, X.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Oh sure, because my chromosomes totally dictate my ability to park a car.”
― Anubha Saxena

“Nothing says 'advanced society' like basing rights and opportunities on chromosomes.”
― Anubha Saxena