Word: mendelianism
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...Mendelian Long Shot. In his two years at North Texas State College, Moyers was twice top student, twice class president. In summer vacations he worked for Publisher Millard Cope's Marshall News Messenger as a $25-a-week reporter. With his first byline, he dropped the y from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...
Nervous about his debut on the Home Service? "Is it likely?" sniffed Winston Churchill, 24. "That hardly runs in the family," considering that his famous grandfather gave the BBC some of its finest hours in World War II. Leaving as little as possible to Mendelian chance, young Churchill started off his daily lunchtime news-and-interviews half hour by asking his first guest, Veteran Pundit Alistair Cooke, "What tips can you give me?" "If you try to be somebody else," cautioned Cooke, "you're lost." So the fledgling commentator skipped politics next day, and interviewed Humorist Malcolm Muggeridge...
...experiments with the long-known but little-understood genes that are not included in the chromosomes that carry most of the elements of a cell's heredity. When reproductive cells mate and divide, the nonchromosomal genes are portioned out by rules that seem to differ from the Mendelian laws governing the chromosome genes. Until now it has been assumed that the female descendants of a mating transmit all the nonchromosomal genes, but Dr. Sager thinks that male descendants occasionally transmit a few. Further experiments may link nonchromosomal genes with the inherited characteristics of many species...
...mouse genetics. She now works at the Radiobiological Research Unit at Harwell, 50 miles west of London. Dr. Lyon became intrigued by the fact that some mice-but only females, it seemed-showed up with Joseph's coats of several colors. This could not happen under classical Mendelian laws of inheritance...
Died. William Ernest Castle, 94, early U.S. geneticist, longtime professor of zoology at Harvard, who in the 1900s extended from plants to mammals the Mendelian theory of inherited characteristics through inbuilt factors (then unknown as genes); in Berkeley, Calif...