MENDELISM AND NEUROPATHIC HEREDITY

Mending Mendelism

Teaching .Mendelism

regor Mendel is rightly credited as being the "father of modern " He presented the results of his pea at a of his local natural history society in two lectures 1865. His paper was published in the proceedings of the society the next year. From his breeding experiments with the edible pea, he recog­ nized the phenomena of what we call dominance and recessiveness, segregation of assortment of dif...

A.N. Kolmogorov’s defence of Mendelism

In 1939 N.I. Ermolaeva published the results of an experiment which repeated parts of Mendel's classical experiments. On the basis of her experiment she concluded that Mendel's principle that self-pollination of hybrid plants gave rise to segregation proportions 3:1 was false. The great probability theorist A.N. Kolmogorov reviewed Ermolaeva's data using a test, now referred to as Kolmogorov's,...

Marriage and Heredity

Mydriasis and heredity.

Routine ophthalmoscopy and fundoscopy of 673 individuals revealed 42 whose irides failed to dilate to a clinically useful degree within 25 to 30 min after the administration of drops of 1% mydracil. These individuals occurred with different frequency among the Aymara, Mestizo, and non-Aymara groups which made up the sample of examinees. The phenomenon was most common among the Aymara, less comm...