HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Robert Hooke, Mendelian Inheritance
10 Mar 2014
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Biology developed as science of life in 19th century. Robert hooke published a book called macographia in 1695. This was the first book published by the royal society. Schwamm and jakob proposed that the cell is the basic structure of the living organism. When a cell divides it gives two different cells. Before the nucleus divides, small rod shaped particles called chromosomes are formed. The nucleus from egg and the sperm combines to give a new nuclei. There are 46 chromosomes in the human body. Mendel describes the principle of dominance as one characteristic passed over by the parent. The principle of segregation is the traits do not appear. The occurrence of characteristic in one generation is independent of the other is the principle of independent assortment. Vries tried to talk about something called spengenes. In the 20th century, sutton talks about genes. He kicked out the idea that the genes are not linked together.
