Mendel's principles of heredity: A defence
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MENDEL’S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY
London : C. J. CLAY AND SONS,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE,
AND
H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C.
Glasgow : 50, WELLINGTON STREET. Leipzig : F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Bombay and Calcutta : MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
GREGOR MENDEL Abbot of Brünn Born 1822. Died 1884.
From a photograph kindly supplied by the Very Rev. Dr Janeischek, the present Abbot.
William Bateson
Gregor Mendel
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
Selection of the Experimental Plants.
Division and Arrangement of the Experiments.
The First Generation [Bred] from the Hybrids.
The Second Generation [Bred] from the Hybrids.
The Subsequent Generations [Bred] from the Hybrids.
The Offspring of Hybrids in which Several Differentiating Characters are Associated.
The Reproductive Cells of Hybrids.
Experiments with Hybrids of other Species of Plants.
Concluding Remarks.
ON HIERACIUM-HYBRIDS OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL FERTILISATION
A DEFENCE OF MENDEL’S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY.
Introductory.
I. The Mendelian Principle of Purity of Germ-Cells and the Laws of Heredity Based on Ancestry.
II. Mendel and the Critic’s Version of him.
III. The Facts in regard to Dominance of Characters in Peas.
IV. Professor Weldon’s collection of “Other Evidence concerning Dominance in Peas.”
V. Professor Weldon’s quotations from Laxton.
VI. The Argument Built on Exceptions.
VII. The question of absolute purity of germ-cells.
Conclusion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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