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genetics
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...genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first...means of ionizing radiations and other mutagens opened the way for much new genetics research. Modifications of Mendel's PrinciplesModification of Mendel......
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Eve (in genetics)
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...Eve, in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people, also known as mitochondrial Eve. In 1987 biochemist Allan......
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conjugation (in genetics)
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...conjugation, in genetics: see recombination....
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Dobzhansky, Theodosius
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......Drosophila and is known for his basic work in genetics. His writings are of considerable significance and include Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937, 3d...summation of contemporary knowledge of genetics; Evolution, Genetics, and Man (1955......
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Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
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......including the consequence of Mendelian genetics on evolutionary theory, the relationship between enzymology and genetics, and the application of mathematics...of Evolution (1937), New Paths in Genetics (1941), and Biochemistry of Genetics......
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Muller, Hermann Joseph
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......1933–37) of the Institute of Genetics in Moscow. In 1945 he became...include Out of the Night (1935), Genetics, Medicine, and Man (1947; written with others), and Studies in Genetics (1962). He also wrote articles......
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Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
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......Supreme Soviet and head of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...became the leader of the Soviet school of genetics that opposed the theories of...removed as director of the Institute of Genetics, which resulted in the return of Soviet......
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Mendel, Gregor Johann
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......conclusions have become the basic tenets of genetics and a notable influence in plant and...understand it today by means of the science of genetics, the Mendelian system states that an...modified by the discovery of linkage in genetics.BibliographySee biography of Mendel......
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Morgan, Thomas Hunt
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......books, classics in the literature of genetics, include The Physical Basis of Heredity...rev. ed. 1923), Evolution and Genetics (1925), The Theory of the Gene (rev. ed. 1928), and Embryology and Genetics (1934)....
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East, Edward Murray
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......Connecticut, and from 1909 he was professor of experimental plant morphology and of genetics at Harvard. His researches—in part for the Dept. of Agriculture—on the genetics and breeding of corn, tobacco, and potatoes were especially valuable; he......