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

Table of Contents

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