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Document Type
Research
Abstract
The first task of genetics was to determine the laws which govern the transmission of characters from parent to offspring and to locate the material basis for this regular behavior. The task was quickly accomplished so that 20 years ago the gene-chromosome theory of heredity was well established; it has since been the ABC of genetics and provides the framework upon which more recent work rests. The substance of the theory, as you will recall, is that the characters observed in an adult individual are determined by genes which are arranged in a linear order in the chromosomes.
Publication Date
1941
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
48
Issue
1
First Page
51
Last Page
58
Copyright
©1941 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Timm, E. W.
(1941)
"Theoretical Genetics - Paper Presented at the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 48(1), 51-58.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol48/iss1/6