Ebook: The Meiotic System
- Tags: Life Sciences general, Biomedicine general
- Series: Protoplasmatologia 6 / F / 1
- Year: 1965
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Introduction When the study of heredity and variation first came to be treated as a scientific subject-and this, one must remember, was only just over a hundred years ago-there was an unfortunate separation between the disciplines of cytology and experimental breeding. This separation was based partly on a lack of understanding and partly on a lack of the desire to understand. Even WILLIAM BATESON, the first apostle of mendelism in England, had a blind spot for cytology and for many years dogmatically refused to believe that MENDEL'S determinants were transmitted and distributed by the chromosomes. This separation between cytology and experimental breeding is one which persists, in a measure, even today, simply because there are two quite different, though complementary, techniques available for the study of heredity and variation. On the one hand, one can study directly the structure and behaviour of the actual vehicles which transmit the genetic determinants from one generation to the next. This is the method employed by those who study genetics through a microscope. The alternative method is that used by the experimental breeder who, in default of being able to watch the hereditary factors segregate from each other directly, is obliged to examine the constitution of the germ cells indirectly by sampling, and usually at random, the products of a controlled mating.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-2
Introduction....Pages 3-3
Meiosis in Male Chorthippus ....Pages 4-14
Patterns of Variation in Chiasma Formation....Pages 14-27
Structural Abnormalities at Meiosis....Pages 27-66
Structural Variants....Pages 66-102
Meiosis in Numerical Mutants....Pages 102-134
Meiosis in Organisms with Non-localised Centric Systems....Pages 134-147
Meiosis in Species Hybrids....Pages 147-167
Meiotic Behaviour of Special Chromosomes....Pages 167-201
Chromosome Duplication and Pairing....Pages 201-204
Chiasma Formation....Pages 204-223
Coiling....Pages 223-242
Chromosome Movement and Segregation....Pages 242-253
The Control of Meiosis....Pages 253-291
The Regulation of Meiosis....Pages 291-298
Back Matter....Pages 298-337
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-2
Introduction....Pages 3-3
Meiosis in Male Chorthippus ....Pages 4-14
Patterns of Variation in Chiasma Formation....Pages 14-27
Structural Abnormalities at Meiosis....Pages 27-66
Structural Variants....Pages 66-102
Meiosis in Numerical Mutants....Pages 102-134
Meiosis in Organisms with Non-localised Centric Systems....Pages 134-147
Meiosis in Species Hybrids....Pages 147-167
Meiotic Behaviour of Special Chromosomes....Pages 167-201
Chromosome Duplication and Pairing....Pages 201-204
Chiasma Formation....Pages 204-223
Coiling....Pages 223-242
Chromosome Movement and Segregation....Pages 242-253
The Control of Meiosis....Pages 253-291
The Regulation of Meiosis....Pages 291-298
Back Matter....Pages 298-337
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