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...rays produce their changes not by affecting the chromosomes, but rather the chloroplasts themselves. Reason: chloroplasts are passed on directly from parent plant to its offspring through the seed or spore instead of arising anew in each generation under the genetic influence of the chromosomes. Knudson worked with fern spores, because they are simple and sexlessly reproductive...
MacKinney's condition is not so bad that he couldn't play if he was absolutely needed but Coach Dick Harlow, the big egg and fern man, knows which side his bread is buttered on and will probably not take any chances on not having "Mac" around for the season's final quartet of games...
Uruguay sent Dr. Hugo Fernández Artucio, its No. 1 anti-Nazi sleuth, out to continue his work abroad. A onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Fernandez started his investigations in Uruguay as a labor of love, published a book of his findings, aroused the Government to squelch Nazi organizations. Recently he conferred with Government officials in nine Latin-American countries. Last week in Washington he testified at the trial of the German Transocean news service, which was found guilty of operating an unregistered propaganda outlet (see p. 17). Next he goes to London...
...Argentina last week scientists had discovered a new child prodigy, a nine-year-old chemical wizard named Jorge Fernández...
...grades of school in one month at Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fé, where he was born. Then his father took him out of school, bought textbooks, let Jorge go his own way. Three years ago the boy began to scribble strange, cabalistic signs. Father Santiago Fernández thought he had suffered a nervous breakdown from too much study. But a local doctor told him his son had picked up some elementary chemical formulas, was trying to analyze and combine them...