Understanding heredity : an introduction to genetics / Richard B. Goldschmidt.

  • Goldschmidt, Richard, 1878-1958.
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[1952]
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    I: к il This is an expert's picture of the heredity riddle UNDERSTANDING яепешу An Introduction to Genetics By RICHARD B. GOLDSCHMiDT Professor of Zoology University of California i|i; Berkeley JOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc. 440 Fourth Avenue New York 16, N. Y. When you look at a child to see which parent he resembles, when you recognize in someone features or char¬ acteristics you once noticed in his uncle or grandfather—you're thinking about heredity. At one time or another everyone wonders about heredity — the nursery¬ man in relation to his many varieties of flowers, the physician in relation to his patients with hereditary or consti¬ tutional diseases, the farmer in relation to his seed and crops, and the layman in relation to himself and his fellow The science of genetics has now pinned down the facts that give us a clear solution to what once was the fascinating puzzle of heredity. Profes¬ sor Goldschmidt puts into this absorb¬ ing book the facts of heredity in com¬ pact form, facts necessary for a true insight into much of human nature and the living world in general. Here, as told by a world-famous authority, is the story of cells, genes, and chromo¬ somes, of man and heredity, to be read and studied with profit by those with little or no scientific training. After establishing what is and what is not inherited, Professor Gold- schmidt reveals the nature of the in¬ heritable traits that we can see and the structures within the sex cells that con¬ trol these traits. Tracing their impor¬ tant features, the author shows how the sex cells control all hereditary traits. On this basis the famous laws of hered¬ ity are derived — the same laws which the pioneer geneticist Mendel discov¬ ered and which remain forever as the foundation for the study of heredity. {Continued on back ßap)