Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi responding to what Pontecorvo described as "the nightmare of defining "genetic" properties and changes"

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5 Feb 1953
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UGC 198/3/3/9
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi responding to what Pontecorvo described as "the nightmare of defining "genetic" properties and changes". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ephrussi writes that he agress with Pontecorvo on the "difficulty of rigorous definition" of terms such as "genetic", "differentiation" and "mutation". He also makes reference to a discussion on this matter to be held at Gale's symposium.

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5 Feb 1953

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1 letter (1 page)

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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