Genetics and Eugenics : A Text-Book for Students of Biology and a Reference Book for Animal and Plant Breeders / W. E. Castle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castle, W. E., author.

Series:

Studies in Genetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics.

Genetics.

Heredity.

Hybridization.

Local Subjects:

Eugenics.

Genetics.

Heredity.

Hybridization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

4th rev. ed. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GENETICS

CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

CHAPTER II. CHROMATIN, THE DIRECTING AGENCY OF LIFE AND THE MATERIAL BASIS OF HEREDITY

CHAPTER III. REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL; PARTHENOGENESIS

CHAPTER IV. CHROMOSOME REDUCTION AND THE GENESIS OF GAMETES

CHAPTER V. HAPLOID, DIPLOID, TRIPLOID, AND TETRAPLOID ORGANISMS. CHROMOSOMES AND SEX. CHROMOSOMES IN RELATION TO PARTHENOGENESIS

CHAPTER VI. RELATION OF GENETICS TO THE EVOLUTION THEORY

PART II. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GENETICS

CHAPTER VII. DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND ITS EVIDENCES

CHAPTER VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAMARCK, WEISMANN, AND HERBERT SPENCER TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION; DARWIN'S THEORY OF PANGENESIS

CHAPTER IX. ARE ACQUIRED CHARACTERS INHERITED ?

CHAPTER X. WEISMANN'S THEORY OF HEREDITY

CHAPTER XI. ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY AND MEASURE VARIATION: BIOMETRY

CHAPTER XII. THE MUTATION THEORY OF DE VRIES AND THE MODERN MUTATION THEORY

CHAPTER XIII. THE PIONEER PLANT HYBRIDIZERS: THE DISCOVERY AND REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S LAW

PART III. THE ESSENTIAL FACTS OF GENETICS

CHAPTER XIV. MENDEL'S LAW OF HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED IN ANIMAL BREEDING

CHAPTER XV. SOME MENDELIAN TERMS AND THEIR USES

CHAPTER XVI. CALCULATING MENDELIAN EXPECTATIONS

CHAPTER XVII. MODIFIED MENDELIAN RATIOS; HETEROZYGOUS CHARACTERS; ATAVISM OR REVERSION

CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNIT-CHARACTERS OF RODENTS

CHAPTER XIX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN CATTLE AND HORSES

CHAPTER XX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN SWINE, SHEEP, DOGS, AND CATS

CHAPTER XXI. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN POULTRY AND IN PLANTS

CHAPTER XXII. UNIT-CHARACTERS OF INSECTS

CHAPTER XXIII. SEX-LINKED AND OTHER KINDS OF LINKED INHERITANCE IN DROSOPHILA

CHAPTER XXIV. DROSOPHILA TYPE AND POULTRY TYPE OF SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE

CHAPTER XXV. LINKAGE

CHAPTER XXVI. UNIT-CHARACTERS AND SELECTION; MODIFYING FACTORS AND MULTIPLE ALLELOMORPHS

CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF MUTATIONS; THE PURE LINE PRINCIPLE

CHAPTER XXVIII. INHERITANCE OF SIZE AND OTHER QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS. THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTIPLE FACTORS

CHAPTER XXIX. GENETIC CHANGES AND THE CHROMOSOMES

CHAPTER XXX. GENETIC CHANGES IN ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN PARTHENOGENESIS, AND IN SELF-FERTILIZATION

CHAPTER XXXI. GENETIC CHANGES IN BISEXUAL REPRODUCTION

CHAPTER XXXII. INBREEDING AND CROSSBREEDING

CHAPTER XXXIII. HYBRID VIGOR OR HETEROSIS

CHAPTER XXXIV. GALTON'S LAW OF ANCESTRAL HEREDITY AND HIS PRINCIPLE OF REGRESSION

CHAPTER XXXV. SEX DETERMINATION, SEX MOSAICS AND SEX HORMONES

CHAPTER XXXVI. PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING

CHAPTER XXXVII. PRINCIPLES OF LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RELATION OF MENDELISM TO MUTATION AND EVOLUTION

PART IV. EUGENICS

CHAPTER XXXIX. HUMAN CROSSES

CHAPTER XL. HUMAN HEREDITY IN GENERAL

CHAPTER XLI. PHYSICAL INHERITANCE

CHAPTER XLII. HEREDITY OF GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY, INSANITY, EPILEPSY, AND FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS

CHAPTER XLIII. THE POSSIBILITY AND PROSPECTS OF BREEDING A BETTER HUMAN RACE

BIBLIOGRAPHY I. (1920)

BIBLIOGRAPHY II. (1920-1924)

BIBLIOGRAPHY III.

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-49364-8

OCLC:

979574784