Todd Akin Quotes

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.

Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

as to fix the moment that the embryo becomes an animal.

The fallacy of genetic determinism is to suppose that the genes "make' the organism. It is a basic principle of developmental biology that organisms undergo a continuous development from conception to death, a development that is the unique consequence of the interaction of the genes in their cells, the temporal sequence of environments through which the organisms pass, and random cellular processes that determine the life, death, and transformation of cells. As a result, even the fingerprints of identical twins are not identical. Their temperaments, mental processes, abilities, life choices, disease histories, and death certainly differ despite the determined efforts of many parents to enforce as great a similarity as possible.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.