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Heredity in Plants, Animals, and Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. J. Allen
Affiliation:
Director of the Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

Of the many branches of biological enquiry which have occupied the attention of naturalists during the last twenty years the one which has perhaps yielded the most striking results, from a theoretical point of view, has been the study of heredity in plants and animals—the study of the laws according to which the characters of parents are transmitted to their descendants.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1917

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References

page 364 note * Sexton, E. W., and Wing, M. B.Experiments on the Mendelian Inheritance of Eyecolour in the Amphipod Gammarus chevreuxi. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., XI, p. 18. 1916.Google Scholar

Allen, E. J., and Sexton, E. W.The Loss of the Eye-pigment in Gammarus chevreuxi. Jonrn, Mar. Biol. Assoc., XI, p. 273. 1917.Google Scholar

page 269 note * In the diagram one brood only is shown from this mating, consisting of 7 black-eyed and 2 red-eyed young.