Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...green. This ratio always holds in breeding a dominant to a recessive. At the dawn of the 20th Century, Mendel's laws were dug up and made the basis of the science of genetics, which was also boosted through experiments on fruit flies by Thomas Hunt Morgan, now a venerable Nobel Prizeman at California Institute of Technology...
...fruit fly's germ cells are eight narrow little blobs called chromosomes. On these Morgan tracked down the positions of hundreds of invisible genes (heredity transmitters) each of which seemed to control a single body characteristic-such as eye color, chest bristles, wing shape-in the offspring. When a segment of a chromosome broke off during reproduction, all the features controlled by the genes on that segment were affected...
Some geneticists feel that Morgan overemphasized the independent action ot single genes. But they do not deny that genes exist. The Moscow students denied it flatly, on the ground that "the concept of the gene contradicts dialectical materialism." They asserted that in good Russian eyes "formal genetics" or "Mendelianism-Morganism" should be as outmoded as the myth that the world is supported on the backs of whales and tortoises...
...according to the New York Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...
During his lifetime Patent Attorney John D. Morgan piled up a fortune of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Last week, in Elizabeth, N. J., his last will and testament was filed. His posthumous hedge against waste: neither of his daughters (heirs after the death of their mother) is to receive her share until she has passed a formal examination convincing the trustees she really knows and understands "the principles of sound investment...