Author: William Wilks
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Royal Horticultural Society
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Languages : en
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Author: Royal Horticultural Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Dr. Hakim. K. Saboowala
Publisher: Dr.Hakim Saboowala
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Everything to Know About GENE: Etymology, Definition, History, Function and much more. A Concise Pedagogy of GENE. We all know about genetics, how they are made up of DNA. Many young people will have had their first information about genetics and DNA from the legendary film Jurassic Park, which spoke about DNA and genetics in making dinosaurs. However, humans have DNA too, and for us, it can influence everything about us. Everyone has DNA, and therefore everyone has genes. Genes are the basic physical and functional units of heredity, they are made up of DNA, and one gets them from his parents. How we understand genes is often molded by what we know in popular culture, unless you are a scientist. Films, TV, and even games will talk about genes and how they influence who we are. However, here we won’t tell you that you can genetically engineer a dinosaur, or that genetic mutations will lead to a zombie outbreak. Here, I have endeavoured in this E-Booklet to present the truth about genetics and how they actually affect your life and who you are as a person along with plenty of relevant ILLUSTRATIONS for better understanding of GENE pedagogy. …Dr. H. K. Saboowala. M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)

Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Vols. for 1869-1952 include Extracts from the proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Vols. for 1846-55 include Proceedings at meetings of the society.

Author: Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521637138
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar's book addresses. The author analyses the nature of reductionism in classical and molecular genetics. He shows that there are two radically different kinds of reductionist explanation: genetic reduction (as found in classical genetics) and physical reduction (found in molecular genetics). This important book clarifies the meaning of the term 'genetic', shows how molecular studies have affected genetics, and provides the philosophical background necessary to understand the debates over the Human Genome Project. It will be of particular interest to professionals and students in the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the social studies of science, medicine, and technology.

Author: Daniel J. Fairbanks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633888398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world’s most ingenious and influential scientists. Nonetheless, he remains misunderstood and enigmatic, his history shrouded in controversy and myth. Escaping poverty, he joined a scholarly community of Augustinian friars in a monastery and studied at the University of Vienna under some of Europe’s most accomplished scientists. He returned to a tumultuous milieu at the monastery as he and his fellow friars suffered a harrowing investigation accusing them of secularism and pantheistic philosophy. Against this backdrop, Mendel initiated an epic set of experiments with the common garden pea that would lead him to reveal the mystery of inheritance. The article he published would become a classic in the history of science. Darwin’s Origin of Species shook the world in 1859. Its impact eclipsed Mendel’s discovery, presented just a few years after Darwin’s pivotal book. Unlike Darwin, who witnessed his work attain immediate worldwide fame (and infamy), Mendel would never know how powerfully his discoveries would impact science and humanity; his achievements languished in obscurity until well beyond his death. “The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown,” Darwin lamented just a few pages into the Origin of Species. Mendel had discovered and presented those laws, which ultimately would bridge the most gaping chasm in Darwin’s theory. In 1900, at the dawn of the twentieth century, several influential scientists independently rediscovered Mendel’s theory, elevating it to the highest echelon of scientific triumph. The new science, christened genetics, immediately generated controversies, some of which continue to the present. Throughout modern history, proponents and detractors alike have coopted Mendel’s theory to buttress their worldviews, fueling the flames of disputes and prolonging political battles. Unquestionably, however, it has served as the foundation for some history’s greatest scientific advances. This book commemorates Mendel’s life and legacy at the bicentennial of his birth. It interweaves traditional accounts of his history with newly discovered evidence to reveal an extraordinary teacher, a resolute priest and abbot, and a complex and guileless scientist whose momentous discoveries have remained essentially unchanged for more than a century and a half.

Author: American Philosophical Society
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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