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Word: paramecia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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Scientist. Not entirely to nearsightedness and fatuity does Mr. Prentice lay the blame for confusion and low milk output. The science of genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Milk v. Magnificence | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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