Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding - A Prelude to Mendel (Hardcover)

Before Mendel, who came closest to the truth about heredity? This book examines the activities of sheep breeders able to transform the appearance and qualities of their stock by combining different traits of body or wool into new patterns. Exploiting what were then untried procedures - individual trait selection, very close inbreeding and progeny testing - they demonstrated inheritance from both sexes and showed how it could be stabilised. Major advances in breeding are associated with the English farmer Robert Bakewell (1725-1795). By the following century, when the same procedures had been established at breeding centres in central Europe, theory as well as practice became the subject of wider attention. In the Brno Sheep Breeders' Society, discussions of patterns of heredity finally gave way to the physiological question, 'What is inherited and how?' The question was posed by Cyrill Napp, abbot of the monastery to which Mendel was admitted six years later.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	July 2001
Authors:	Roger Wood • Vitezslav Orel
Dimensions:	242 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-850584-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Genetics (non-medical) > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-850584-1
Barcode:	9780198505846

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