Word: genetecist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Both had their origin in seeds exposed to X-rays in 1933 by Genetecist Ernest Brown Babcock of the University of California. The X-rays ionized-or "electrified"-the seeds' nuclei, kneading their chromosomes into unusual patterns which produced the two desirably abnormal plants* (as well as a number of other undesirably abnormal freaks, grotesques and runts...
...Chicago's Anton Julius Carlson, declared that the problem of alcoholism "is too complex for any one of our biological and medical disciplines. The sociologist should be present at the start, and I imagine we will not travel very far before we ask for the aid of the genetecist and the educator. [It] . . . is going to be a labor of Hercules...
| 1 |