ANTH 5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-19: Standard Social Science Model, Mitosis, The Double Helix
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50 genetics ideas you really need to know. 1858 darwin presented the theory of natural selection to the royal society: organisms inherit characteristics from their parents with small and unpredictable alterations. Chapter 2: the laws of inheritance: darwin had theorized that the characteristics of each parent merge in the offspring. 1865 - gregor mendel a moravian monk in the czech republic breeding more than 29,000 pea plants. Including such diseases as tay-sachs and huntingtons: today science has found complex dominance , where there can be other outcomes aside from strict dominant and recessive results. Like red and white carnations crossing and getting pink: mendel"s paper was not well read and his work did not become widely known until the 20th century, the condensed idea: genes can be dominant or recessive. 1910 t h morgan experiments with: traits are inherited via genes that reside on chromosomes.
