Word: embryos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat. This vitamin can be extracted from the wheat embryo with ethyl alcohol and ether and a daily dose of 100 milligrams of the resulting oil cures sterility in the rats...
Meanwhile Congressmen were shocked by an announcement from the Navy Department. On account of the reduction of the fleet under the Five-Power Treaty, the number of students at Annapolis must also be reduced. Accordingly, Senators and Congressmen may each appoint only three instead of the five embryo officers to the Naval Academy next year...
...other hand, in variably have two X-chromosomes. Eggs fertilized by spermatozoa con taining the X-element (thus giving the product a double dose of X's) become females, and the others, males. All experimentalists agree that sex is determined at the very beginning of development in the embryo...
...found in differences in the male cells only, and claims that both the spermatozoon and the ovum have activating " microcellules." These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa. But Alich also believes that various other factors affect this potential energy of the germ cell, including potency, fatigue, old age, and has evidence for this from horses, sheep and roosters. Dr. James W. Mavor, of Union College, has discovered that X-rays can eliminate the X-chromosome...
...surprising to discover that Graduate School freshmen are actually as green as college freshmen are reputed. No one would suspect a Law School student of attempting to dodge the hard work obviously necessary for training a lawyer. Nevertheless, in order to protect the embryo Mr. Tutts from the fraudulence of note-sellers, four professors have had to resort to a court injunction against the most prominent offenders...