Concept 40 Living things share common genes.
A young Mike Wigler with pet snake.
Mike Wigler mugging for the camera.
Mike Wigler (R) with his older brother and pet dog.
Harold Varmus and Michael Bishop at a 1978 Cold Spring Harbor meeting.
Harold Varmus, President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
A very young J. Michael Bishop.
J. Michael Bishop as a high school graduate.
J. Michael Bishop as a graduate student.
J. Michael Bishop, pitcher of his softball team.
J. Michael Bishop, professor and popular lecturer at University of California, San Francisco.
E. coli stole one of its dehydrogenase genes from an animal, probably while residing in the animal's gut.
How common was gene stealing during evolution?
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A young Mike Wigler with pet snake.
DNA is packaged in a chromosome.
Higher cells incorporate an ancient chromosome.
Some DNA does not encode protein.
Some DNA can jump.
Genes can be turned on and off.
Genes can be moved between species.
DNA responds to signals from outside the cell.
Different genes are active in different kinds of cells.
Master genes control basic body plans.
Development balances cell growth and death.
A genome is an entire set of genes.
Living things share common genes.
DNA is only the beginning for understanding the human genome.