Intracellular pangenesis

Charles Darwin's Theory of Pangenesis

In 1868 in England, Charles Darwin [5] proposed his pangenesis [6] theory to describe the units of inheritance between parents and offspring and the processes by which those units control development in offspring. Darwin coined the concept of gemmules, which he said referred to hypothesized minute particles of inheritance thrown off by all cells of the body. The theory suggested that an organis...

A new perspective on Darwin's Pangenesis.

In 1868 Charles Darwin proposed Pangenesis, a developmental theory of heredity. He suggested that all cells in an organism are capable of shedding minute particles he called gemmules, which are able to circulate throughout the body and finally congregate in the gonads. These particles are then transmitted to the next generation and are responsible for the transmission of characteristics from pa...

Darwin's Pangenesis and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

In earlier work I have argued that the most substantial threat to scientific realism arises from the problem of unconceived alternatives: the repeated failure of past scientists and scientific communities to conceive of alternatives to extant scientific theories, even when such alternatives were both (1) well confirmed by the evidence available at the time and (2) sufficiently scientifically se...

The Study of Intracellular Energy in Apoptotic Cells

Khalatbary AR1, Tarihi T2, Naderimanesh H3 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 2. Professor, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Ttarbiat Modarres University , Tehran 3. Professor, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University , Tehran Abstract Background: Apoptosis is an active ...

Modeling Spatial Distribution of Intracellular Organelles by Molecular Motors