Encyclopaedic History of Science and Technology Volume-2 (History of Biology).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chhatwal, G. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1994.

Summary:

This Encycropaedia is an outstanding to attempt take full account as incur as possible of history of science and technology from ancient times to twentieth century. At it . same time, an attempt has been made to avoid burdening the text with petty details and maintain a smooth presentation and paint a whore integrated panorama of History of science and Technology. This set has the abvious advantage of competing large departments of knowledge with the most ancient as well, as recent information. It includes History or Physics'chemistry, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, Computer. and Technology. In subject matter, an attempt has been undertaken by a careful division of topics to find a better balance. The major part of the material has been extracted from original sources. The point of view in the present work has been intended airways to be objective, impartial and free from conventional platitudes, but this is an ideal and very difficult to attain. The main aim of this encyclopedia is to provide survey of History of science and Technology / with the quest of the young student of the layman. It is hoped that this set will, encourage the reader to make his own investigations of the various scientific phenomena. Throughout the process of compilation and editing of this set, sincere efforts have been made to make this encycropaedia as a ready reference for undergraduate ,and postgraduate students of Science, Biology, Engineering, Computer, Marine and Biochemistry and also for those appearing for competitive examinations, research scholars, teachers and alike

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyrights Page

About the Author

About the Book

Preface

Contents

1. Value of Dissection of the Living

2. The Circulation of the Blood

3. Capillaries of the Lungs

4. On the Sex of Plant Pistils

5. The Naming of Organisms

6. The Catalogue of Nature

7. On the Tendency of Sciences to Form Varieties

8. On the Mutation Theory

9. Taxonomy of the Higher Plants

10. Classification of Plants

11. The Clue from the Root Tips

12. Natural Selection in Drosophila

13. The New Ecology

14. The Environmental Crisis

15. Ecology and the Environment of Man

16. The Nature and Role of Plant Succession

17. Domestication of Corn

18. An Attempt at Synthesis

19. Chemical Communication in Social Insects

20. The Cell and its Life Phenomena

21. Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora

22. Transformation of Pneumococcal Types

23. Genetic Transduction.

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Other Format:

Print version: Chhatwal, G. R. Encyclopaedic History of Science and Technology Volume-2 (History of Biology)

ISBN:

9789354110283

9354110282

OCLC:

1293254995