Category: Science - Biology

Piebald rats and selection

The fundamental importance of Mendel’s law of heredity is generally recognized among biologists. It is a working hypothesis whose utility is fully substantiated by abundant results daily increasing in amount. But biologists are not in agreement as to how much this law includes...

Chapters

1. Part 1

The fundamental importance of Mendel’s law of heredity is generally recognized among biologists. It is a working hypothesis whose utility is fully substantiated by abundant resu...

2. Part 2

The plus and minus selection series already described make it clear that one can, in a race of hooded rats, either increase or decrease the average pigmentation at will, and at...

3. Part 3

+----------+------------------------------------------+ | | General (plus) series. | | +--------+----------+-----------+----------+ |Selection.| Mean, | Mean, |Regression.| No....

4. Part 4

The upper group offspring of Table 55, second division, the homozygous and heterozygous mutants, number 68; they have a mean grade of 4.77 as compared with 4.43 in F₁, which con...

5. Part 5

+--------+----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Grade | Grade of offspring. |Totals. | | of +--+--+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+ Means. | |par...

6. Part 6

+--------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Grade | Grade of offspring. |Totals. | | of +--+--+--+--+---+--+---+---+---+--+--+--+ Means. | |pare...

7. Part 7

+--------+-----------------------+-------+------+-----------+ | Grade | Grade of offspring. | | | | | of +--+--+--+---+---+---+--+Totals.|Means.|Regression.| |parents.| ½| ¾|-1|...

8. Part 8

+----------------+---------------------------+-------+------+----------+ | Grade | Grade of offspring. | | | | | of +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+Totals.|Means.|Standard | |paren...