Quotes Tagged With :heredity

Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes....

For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes....

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention....

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve....

Noble fathers have noble children.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different....