Genetics / by H. Kalmus ; in collaboration with Lettice M. Crump.

  • Hans Kalmus
Date:
1948
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Credit: Genetics / by H. Kalmus ; in collaboration with Lettice M. Crump. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    though genetics is the youngest of the bio logical sciences, it is exciting more attention among both scientists and layfolk at the present time than any other branch of biological in quiry. It has grown so fast, and in so spectacular a manner, that the majority of scientists, and even of biologists, cannot keep abreast of it; in consequence it has won an undeserved repu tation for being difficult to understand. How undeserved, will be apparent to every reader of this book; for Dr Kalmus and his collabora tor, in comparatively small space, here set out in simple language the main principles of the science so clearly and concisely that every reader, however previously ignorant of its axioms and achievements, will be able to follow. Part of the supposed difficulty, perhaps, resides in the special terminology which gene tics has created to meet its special needs. But no one need be deterred from making a closer acquaintance with genetical principles on this account: the authors give the fullest explana tions of the special terminology, and clones, alleles, polyploids will hold no mysteries for the readers of their pages. What factors of biological make-up are in herited, in plants, animals, and man; how they are inherited; how mutations and variations arise and are transmitted; the importance of genetical knowledge to the gardener, farmer, stock-breeder, and parent; all these matters are discussed and explained, and the text is elucidated by a number of simple diagrams. 22500801264
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