# Piebald rats and selection

Author: Castle, William E. (William Ernest), 1867-1962; Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74375

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## Summary

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. All perhaps would agree that it implies the existence in the germ-cell of specific determiners essential for the production of particular characteristics in the offspring. Further, no one probably will object to the statement that it implies a dual or duplex condition of the zygote as regards determiners and a simple or simplex condition of the gamete. Thirdly, the fact will be admitted by all that most mendelizing...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/piebald-rats-and-selection-74375/chapters/8/index.md)