Genetics and Eugenics : : Fourth Edition / / W. E. Castle.

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• VerfasserIn: Castle, W. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1930
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 4th rev. ed. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Genetics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (474 p.) :; 170 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GENETICS --; CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE --; CHAPTER II. CHROMATIN, THE DIRECTING AGENCY OF LIFE AND THE MATERIAL BASIS OF HEREDITY --; CHAPTER III. REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL; PARTHENOGENESIS --; CHAPTER IV. CHROMOSOME REDUCTION AND THE GENESIS OF GAMETES --; CHAPTER V. HAPLOID, DIPLOID, TRIPLOID, AND TETRAPLOID ORGANISMS. CHROMOSOMES AND SEX. CHROMOSOMES IN RELATION TO PARTHENOGENESIS --; CHAPTER VI. RELATION OF GENETICS TO THE EVOLUTION THEORY --; PART II. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GENETICS --; CHAPTER VII. DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND ITS EVIDENCES --; CHAPTER VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAMARCK, WEISMANN, AND HERBERT SPENCER TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION; DARWIN’S THEORY OF PANGENESIS --; CHAPTER IX. ARE ACQUIRED CHARACTERS INHERITED ? --; CHAPTER X. WEISMANN’S THEORY OF HEREDITY --; CHAPTER XI. ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY AND MEASURE VARIATION: BIOMETRY --; CHAPTER XII. THE MUTATION THEORY OF DE VRIES AND THE MODERN MUTATION THEORY --; CHAPTER XIII. THE PIONEER PLANT HYBRIDIZERS: THE DISCOVERY AND REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S LAW --; PART III. THE ESSENTIAL FACTS OF GENETICS --; CHAPTER XIV. MENDEL’S LAW OF HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED IN ANIMAL BREEDING --; CHAPTER XV. SOME MENDELIAN TERMS AND THEIR USES --; CHAPTER XVI. CALCULATING MENDELIAN EXPECTATIONS --; CHAPTER XVII. MODIFIED MENDELIAN RATIOS; HETEROZYGOUS CHARACTERS; ATAVISM OR REVERSION --; CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNIT-CHARACTERS OF RODENTS --; CHAPTER XIX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN CATTLE AND HORSES --; CHAPTER XX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN SWINE, SHEEP, DOGS, AND CATS --; CHAPTER XXI. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN POULTRY AND IN PLANTS --; CHAPTER XXII. UNIT-CHARACTERS OF INSECTS --; CHAPTER XXIII. SEX-LINKED AND OTHER KINDS OF LINKED INHERITANCE IN DROSOPHILA --; CHAPTER XXIV. DROSOPHILA TYPE AND POULTRY TYPE OF SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE --; CHAPTER XXV. LINKAGE --; CHAPTER XXVI. UNIT-CHARACTERS AND SELECTION; MODIFYING FACTORS AND MULTIPLE ALLELOMORPHS --; CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF MUTATIONS; THE PURE LINE PRINCIPLE --; CHAPTER XXVIII. INHERITANCE OF SIZE AND OTHER QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS. THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTIPLE FACTORS --; CHAPTER XXIX. GENETIC CHANGES AND THE CHROMOSOMES --; CHAPTER XXX. GENETIC CHANGES IN ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN PARTHENOGENESIS, AND IN SELF-FERTILIZATION --; CHAPTER XXXI. GENETIC CHANGES IN BISEXUAL REPRODUCTION --; CHAPTER XXXII. INBREEDING AND CROSSBREEDING --; CHAPTER XXXIII. HYBRID VIGOR OR HETEROSIS --; CHAPTER XXXIV. GALTON’S LAW OF ANCESTRAL HEREDITY AND HIS PRINCIPLE OF REGRESSION --; CHAPTER XXXV. SEX DETERMINATION, SEX MOSAICS AND SEX HORMONES --; CHAPTER XXXVI. PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING --; CHAPTER XXXVII. PRINCIPLES OF LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT --; CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RELATION OF MENDELISM TO MUTATION AND EVOLUTION --; PART IV. EUGENICS --; CHAPTER XXXIX. HUMAN CROSSES --; CHAPTER XL. HUMAN HEREDITY IN GENERAL --; CHAPTER XLI. PHYSICAL INHERITANCE --; CHAPTER XLII. HEREDITY OF GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY, INSANITY, EPILEPSY, AND FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS --; CHAPTER XLIII. THE POSSIBILITY AND PROSPECTS OF BREEDING A BETTER HUMAN RACE --; BIBLIOGRAPHY I. (1920) --; BIBLIOGRAPHY II. (1920–1924) --; BIBLIOGRAPHY III. --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674493643; 9783110353488; 9783110353518; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674493643
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: W. E. Castle.