ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gregor Mendel, Somatic Cell, Pea
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The first part of the chapter may be a review for you or your first introduction to the concepts associated with genetics. Genetics is the branch of science that deals with the inheritance of biological characteristics. Particularly, in anthropology, we are interested in the study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next. If you need more support, i suggest this site at. Learn. genetics: http://learn. genetics. utah. edu: cell division by mitosis and by meiosis. The second part covers the factors that produce and redistribute variation (beginning on page 61). I will lecture of this part of the chapter. Cells are the basic units of life in all living things. Beginning about 3. 7 billion years ago, blue-green algae and bacteria were the first of these single-celled organisms. In prokaryotic cells, a single cell constitutes the entire organism. About 1. 2 billion years ago the first eukaryotic cells (multi-cellular organisms) appeared.
