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If you didn't quite get the GCSE results that you were hoping for, then you can always try blaming your parents, or at least their genes.

Now, you might think, well, we're human because of our DNA, but it turns out that each of us has about 20,000 human genes, depending on what you count exactly, but as many as two million to 20 million microbial genes.

I study genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress.

For this reason, farmers plant rice varieties that carry genes for resistance.

Yet, when I started graduate school, no one knew what these genes were.

Now, many people don't mind genetic modification when it comes to moving rice genes around, rice genes in rice plants, or even when it comes to mixing species together through grafting or random mutagenesis.

But when it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, a lot of people say, "Yuck."

Now, some of you may still feel a little queasy about viral genes in your food, but consider this: The genetically engineered papaya carries just a trace amount of the virus.

Some of my friends and family still worry: How do you know genes in the food are safe to eat?

I explained the genetic engineering, the process of moving genes between species, has been used for more than 40 years in wines, in medicine, in plants, in cheeses.

Raoul and I believe that, instead of worrying about the genes in our food, we must focus on how we can help children grow up healthy.

If we put out these brand new genes that we've created, that haven't been challenged by years of evolution, and they started mixing up with the rest of what's going on, couldn't that trigger some kind of cataclysm or problem, especially when you add in the commercial incentive that some companies have to put them out there?

And now to address your other question about, well, mixing genes, aren't there some unintended consequences?

We're so lucky to be born in the time that sequencing genomes is a routine activity, and the brilliant folks at Synthetic Genomics are able to zero in on the pig genome, find exactly the genes that are problematic, and fix them.

We're able to knock out on the order of 100 genes out of the 500 or so that are here.

It turned blue because of the genes we put in it.

We now, from our discovery around the world, have a database with about 20 million genes, and I like to think of these as the design components of the future.

When you think of processing these 20 million different genes or trying to optimize processes to produce octane or to produce pharmaceuticals, new vaccines, we can just with a small team, do more molecular biology than the last 20 years of all science.

Those of our ancestors who saw more accurately had a competitive advantage compared to those who saw less accurately, and therefore they were more likely to pass on their genes.

Scientist use insects to make fundamental discoveries about everything from the structure of our nervous systems to how our genes and DNA work.

Well, it means that just as the English language is made up of alphabetic letters that, when combined into words, allow me to tell you the story I'm going to tell you today, DNA is made up of genetic letters that, when combined into genes, allow cells to produce proteins, strings of amino acids that fold up into complex structures that perform the functions that allow a cell to do what it does, to tell its stories.

There are more genes expressed that are known to be involved in the formation of new memories.

Could we implant suicide genes into these cells to stop them from growing?

Chinese scientists showed recently that they could even use the CRISPR technology to change genes in human embryos.

Right now, the genetic information to understand what types of genes would give rise to these traits is mostly not known.

Since our own sex is determined by genes, and we do know of these other animals that have their sex determined by genes, it's easy to assume that for all animals the sex of their babies still must be determined by genetics.

However, for some animals, the question of whether it will be a boy or a girl has nothing to do with genes at all, and it can depend on something like the weather.

For example, they inserted the genes, or instructions, for a cell to create firefly luciferase and luciferin into a tobacco plant.

For instance, if women find taller men more attractive, then more tall men would mate and have children, putting more tall genes in the gene pool.

That means, in the next generation, more children will have the genes to be taller.

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