Genetic Curiosity Buff Gifts

'Why shouldn't I be obsessive compulsive? My mother is obsessive and my father is compulsive.'

Gifts for a cloned baby!

'Upon entering the rain forest...' 'Thousands of unknown species, and we can fool around with the genes of every one of them.'

"Something's wrong with the broccoli. Please take it back to the kitchen and have it genetically modified."

The Age of Reptiles. . .

'Oh dear. He's got my eyes.'

'Wow! Your kid looks a lot like you!'

'Did you just hear that? We are now and endangered species and mating is now our top priority!'

"The homes in this area are beautiful."

"Hear ye! Hear ye! Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at M.I.T. - good genes, very good genes, O.K., very smart. . ."

"I've been genetically modified!"

"My problem is a recessive gene for honesty and a dominant gene for robbery."

School. I like solving problems with X's and Y's, so I'll probably go into either math or genetics!

'Friends, lab rats, country mice, lend me your ears...'

"And you need to know this why?"

Genetic Fingerprinting.

Research and Development: 'We've finally done it. An actual cell phone!'

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

'Eureka! I found the gene that causes people to sell low and buy high!'

Uncle Mort, have you been playing with your home genetic engineering kit again? Guilty. I was trying to clone my own DNA. For laughs, I mixed up my genes with compost. Mixed up? Technically, cross-bred. Trump is a meathead! Well, you're a vegetable.

Ideas that failed: Goliath Goats.

"Ma didn't want to leave out anyone."

'Darling, we were made for each other.'

'He's got your tattoos.'

DNA Xmas.

Friends often dropped by and subjected Sir Isaac to a little good-natured ridicule.

Genetic Manipulation

"Fortunately I hold the patent for the gene that's causing the ringing in your ears, and I can refer you to the doctor who holds the patent for the gene that's causing the pain in your ears."

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

'Ahhh . . . he's got your original nose.'

'You may share 85% of your genetic material with him, but I share 5% tops.'

DNA Lab. I spliced bee DNA into a dam-building rodent

'He's making tremendous progress. last week he had three tails.'

An inbred poodle.

The best time capsules are our children.