Gregor Mendel : the first geneticist
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Gregor Mendel : the first geneticist
Oxford University Press, 1996
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Bibliography: p. [323]-353
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The laws of heredity are ascribed to Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) who carried out his experiments with plant crossing while an abbot at the monastery in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic. Mendel's hypothesis, which he later proved in experiments, lead to the discovery of the basic mechanisms of heredity, which now underpin much of modern genetics. This is the first systematic study of documents and publications relating to Gregor Mendel. Mendel's research, and his achievements are examined in their social and cultural context. This book is intended for all geneticists interested in the history of their subject and all scientists with a general interest in the history of science.
Table of Contents
- An enigmatic discovery
- Heredity before Mendel
- Heredity in latter-day science
- Heredity in breeding practice
- Heredity in university teaching
- Heredity as a research project
- Family environment and early education
- A fateful decision
- 1848-Year of hope
- The making of a scientist
- Failure
- At University
- A teaching post in Brno
- A second chance
- The Brno scientific community
- The researcher
- The premises
- The Pisum experiments
- A hybrid connecting a single pair of traits
- A hybrid connecting several pairs of traits
- Reproductive cells of hybrids
- Transformation experiments
- The number of experimental Pisum plants
- Experiments with other plant species
- Plant hybridization and the Brno naturalists
- Experiments with Phaseolus
- Experiments with other plants
- Enigmatic Hieracium plants
- The genesis of a theory
- Mendelian mythmaking
- Theory in Pisum experiments
- Theory in experiments with other plant genera
- Hybrids and the idea of evolution
- Honesty in presenting experimental data
- The abbot
- A new political situation
- The agricultural expert
- Among plant-breeders
- Apicultural research
- The acknowledged meteorologist
- The man
- A teacher without university qualifications
- Not an established scientist
- In conflict with officialdom
- Escape from public life
- Acceptance of the theory
- In the eyes of Mendel's contemporaries in Brno
- In the view of contemporaries abroad
- The dawn of a new age
- The origin of genetics
- Mendel remembered
- The 1910 monument to Mendel
- The perception of Mendel's theory in Brno in 1922
- The phantom of the inheritance of acquired characteristics
- The reinstatement of Mendelism after 1950.
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