Perhaps you too have planted a hydrangea in your garden, its blossom as blue as blue can be while still in its pot from the nursery, only to watch its colour muddy and turn ever pinker as the plant’s ...

PROF. WILSON has prepared an exposition of Mendelism which will be of special interest to stock-breeders and serious students of agriculture. It is a model of clearness and directness, and bears the ...

Explore Mendelian inheritance's pivotal role in reconciling evolution and genetics in the 20th century. In general, the hypothesis of cumulative Mendelian factors seems to fit the facts very ...

IN his review of Morgan's “The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity” Mr. Huxley refers to my letter in NATURE of January 12, saying, that if he reads me aright I approve of the idea, expressed as a mere ...

The first fifty years of Mendelism. The introduction of Mendelism into human genetics / Milo Keynes. Galton's theory of ancestral inheritance / Michael Bulmer. The reception of Mendelism by the ...

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European scientists’ rediscovery of Austrian monk Gregor Mendel’s (1822-1884) works on the transmission of traits in peas, in 1901, expanded the possibilities of research into what was then a new and ...

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