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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendel concluded that the reproductive cells of peas contain factors (now called genes) of two kinds: dominant and recessive. The gene for red-floweredness is dominant; the gene for white-floweredness is recessive. When red-and white-flowered plants are mated, the seeds produced get both genes, but the dominant red gene suppresses the recessive white gene. Result: red flowers in the first generation (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Secret of Life | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...thousands of turns long and arranged by thousands in each chromosome, can carry a vast amount of coded information. They may very likely carry enough to determine whether a fertilized egg grows into a clam or an elephant. When chromosomes replicate during cell division, the DNA molecules that they contain presumably replicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Secret of Life | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Rendering the captive queens edible requires little culinary art. The ants are toasted in their own fat on thin clay roof tiles over a wood fire, then salted lightly. Since they contain formic acid, a natural preservative, they remain unspoiled in the markets, where they are displayed in large fiber baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Caviar of Santander | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...book the message was clear, if not original: middle-class morality is enough to drive a man to drink. In the movie the message is sometimes hard to decode, but it seems to contain two arresting ideas: 1) Suzy Parker is a charming young actress, and 2) Gary Cooper is getting a little old (57) for love scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Polls for the expanded 1958-59 Confidential Guide will be collected this evening in the College and at Radcliffe. The guide will contain reports of all freshman and many middle-group (100) courses. Students should fill out polls for all their courses below the 200-level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFY POLLS CLOSE | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

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