Dna Detective Mugs

"Well, it certainly looks like your DNA. How many times have I told you to wear gloves before touching anything?"

'We've isolated the obesity gene down to one of these two.'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'

Printout in a genetics laboratory forming dna double helix

'It's not an electrical problem. Something's wrong with your corporate DNA!'

"Frankly I'm a bit confused. According to the genetic printout this gentleman is, in fact, a goat

'Boy, what a depressing day. We studied heredity.'

"I got my DNA analysis back. Guess what - I'm a Hapsburg."

How did life begin? Image shows a strand of dna in the form of a question mark (with a single cell as the dot, floating in water or primeval soup). The image also refers to life beyond the earth, with the cell-like blobs resembling galaxies in outer space

The dna double helix, with a human family taking the place of the dna rungs.

"The DNA does not lie Mrs Miggins...or should I call you Don Escobar Bolivian drugs czar?"

"I invented the spirals..." "And I invented the plastic bits holding the spirals in place!"

'Sequence my genome? They don't even know I exist.'

'Congratulations - you're the first victim of recombinant DNA.'

When you said you were going to track down your ancestors I thought you meant on the INTERNET.

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

'But, what if we break the genetic code and they just CHANGE it?'

'Good news. The DNA proves you're not guilty, you have no genetic diseases, and you're a half-brother of the Prince of Glavistan.'

"You realize, I guess, that you've left your DNA on that."

"I've devised a new paternity test, or as I call it, a pop quiz."

DNA Test

'It's not supposed to be a triple helix, is it?'

'Well, if you DNA made you do it, I'm sentencing your DNA to thirty years in prison.'

'You've left DNA samples all over the place!'

"Wow, human DNA is so close to ours! Pity they're just missing perfection by a few percentage points..."

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

On the road with the map of the human genome.

Blue Genes

Family DNA

"Ah, good old DNA...nature's bar code!"

'I've found a way to save a bundle on this project -- we can recycle 98 percent of the chimp DNA!'

"Please accept the apologies of this court. You're free to go now, and, by the way, here's your DNA back."

Gene Therapy Needle.

'DNA...nature's bar code.'

Ah ah! That's what I thought! The DNA tests prove that he is in fact a Cuckoo chick...'