Mendel's Principles of Heredity

by William Bateson

Overview

Gregor Mendel first began studying inheritance in pea plants in 1856. While Darwin may have convinced the scientific community that evolution occurred, Mendel discovered some of the rules for this process. By breeding hybrid plants together, he was able to determine that there were dominant and recessive traits. And these traits would appear with a predictable and particular frequency in a given set of offspring. Mendel's Principles of Heredity is the 1913 translation, with added commentary, of Mendel's original work by British scientist WILLIAM BATESON (1861-1926), who coined the term genetics to refer to heredity and inherited traits. Anyone with an interest in science and genetics will find a wealth of information about one of the most revolutionary insights in modern science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602069435
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	11/01/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Part I

I Introductory. Mendel's Discovery 1

Introductory-Some pre-Mendelian Writings-Mendel's Discovery-Dominant and Recessive-Segregation. Allelomorphism-Homozygote and Heterozygote. Purity of Type.

II The Material Investigated 18

List of Structural Characters in Plants and Animals-List of Types in which the inheritance of Colour has been studied-Preliminary Deductions-Dominance and heterozygous characters-Mendel's system distinguished from that of Galton.

III Numerical Consequences and Recombinations 57

Representations of the F₂ Generation and Novelties due to Re-combination of Factors-Compound Characters-Combs of Fowls-Heterostylism-White Flowers from Red x Cream.

IV Heredity of Colour 74

Factors determining Colours: the Ratio 9:3:4-The "Presence and Absence" Hypothesis. Epistatic and Hypostatic Factors-Colours of Mice-Pied Types-A Dominant Piebald.

V Heredity of Colour (continued) 88

Albinos giving Coloured Offspring; Reversion on Crossing-Various Kinds of Whites-Stocks-Orchids-Pigeons-Fowls-Primula.

VI Heredity of Colour (continued) 107

Eye-Colours. Variations in Colour of the Iris-Deficiency of Eye-Pigments in some Coloured Types.

VII Heredity of Colour (continued) 115

The Genetics of Yellow Pigments in certain Animals. Yellow Mice not breeding true-The Case of Basset Hounds and the "Law of Ancestral Heredity." Relation of this Principle to Mendelian Rules.

VIII Heredity of Colour (continued) 132

Various Specific Phenomena in Colour-Inheritance. Relation of Colour to Hoariness in Stocks. Miscellaneous Cases. Colour of a Special Part controlling that of other Parts-Summary and Discussion-Subtraction-Stages.

IX Gametic Coupling and Spurious Allelomorphism 148

Pollen-Shape and Flower-Colour. Axil-Colour and Sterile Anthers-Hooded Standard and Flower-Colour in Sweet Peas.

X Heredity and Sex 164

Evidence from Breeding Experiments. Bryonia-Sex-limited Heredity. The Horns of Sheep-Colour-Blindness-Sex and Spurious Allelomorphism. The Currant Moth-The Cinnamon Canary-The Silky Fowl-Aglia tau-Cytological Evidence-Summary.

XI Double Flowers 196

Miscellaneous Cases. Recessive and Dominant Doubling-"Hose-in-Hose" Flowers-The Special Case of Double Stocks.

XII Evidence as to Mendelian Inheritance in Man 205

Normal Characters-Diseases and Malformations. Dominants-Sex-limited Dominants-Recessives-Notes on collecting Evidence.

XIII Intermediates Between Varieties and the "Pure Lines" of Johannsen 235

Intermediates as Heterozygous Forms-Subtraction-Stages of Dominants-Interfering Factors-Fluctuational Forms-"Pure Lines."

XIV Miscellaneous Exceptional and Unconformable Phenomena 245

Crosses breeding true without Segregation. Parthenogenetic or Apogamic Forms. Hieracium-Sexual Forms-Numerical Aberrations-Irregularities of Dominance-Alternation of Generations-Maternal Characters in certain Seeds.

XV Biological Conceptions in the Light of Mendelian Discoveries 266

Nature of Units-Nature of Segregation-Moment of Segregation-Differentiation of Parts compared with Segregation-Reversion and Variation. "Bush" and "Cupid" Sweet Peas-Mendelian Segregation and Species-Discontinuity in Variation-Mendelism and Natural Selection.

XVI Practical Application of Mendelian Principles 291

Meaning of Pure-bred-Rogueing-Raising Novelties-A Practical Example-Unfixable Types-Technical Methods-Sociological Application.

Appendixes 307

Part II

1 Biographical Notice of Mendel 327

2 Translation of the Paper on Hybridisation 335

3 Translation of the Paper on Hieracium 380

Bibliography 387

Index of Subjects 403

Index of Authors 411