ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heritability, Maurice Wilkins, Nuclear Dna
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Lamarcks supported that individuals could evolve through time and didn"t take into account heritability. Darwin said organisms have variation that is passed on. Lamarck said organisms acquire variation that is passed on. Are the basic unit of all life forms and living organisms. Evolved somewhere around 3. 7 billion years ago. Nucleus that contains your genes and information about traits, contains your dna. Mitochondria the powerhouse of the cell. Mitochondrial dna comes exclusively from your mother, all of the original organelles comes from your mother mtdna . Nuclear dna mdna is from both of your parents and creates the first cell. All tissues in body are made of these except for your egg or sperm cells. Ova egg cells produced in female ovaries. Sperm sec cells produced in male testes. ~100 years after darwin"s publication of the species. James watson and francis crick: most famous. Maurice wilkins owned the lab where dna was discovered.
