What's all this about genetics? : An explanation of inheritance in plants and animals, including man himself, for the ordinary reader / [Rona Hurst].

  • Hurst, Rona, 1897-1980.
Date:
1951]
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    120 PIONEERS OF GENETICS Utilized his enforced open-air life by experimenting in breeding and collecting facts with regard to inheritance, based on the writings of Darwin. Working with pigeons, poultry, rabbits, and particularly orchids, he demon¬ strated (1898) that characters were behaving as units, reappearing intact in later generations. After the dis¬ covery of Mendel's paper in 1900 he carried through many experiments confirming and extending Mendel's laws, discovering the presence of colour and pattern factors in albino rabbits and orchids. In 1910 he founded the Burbage Experiment Station for applied genetics. After service in the 1914-18 war, he worked at Cam¬ bridge on the correlation of genetics, cytology, and the classification of animals and plants with regard to the origin of species and evolution. [His wife, Mrs. Rona Hurst, the author of this book, was closely associated with him in his work for many years.] Reginald Crundall Pimnett (b. 1875) was one of the earliest English workers, joining Bateson at Cam¬ bridge in 1905 and working with him in the important experiments then being carried on, particularly in poultry and sweet peas. It was during this time that they discovered that characters did not always work separately but might be linked, thus laying the foundation of the later work on the linkage of genes within the chromosome. In 1910 he succeeded Bateson as Pro¬ fessor of Genetics at Cambridge, where he carried on extensive experiments with poultry, especially in con¬ nexion with sex-linkage. Calvin Blackman Bridges (1889-1938) was one of the earliest workers with Morgan on Drosophila, and until his death a leader of a famous group working under a grant from the Carnegie Institution of Washing¬ ton, He was particularly responsible for the mapping