Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while, as often happens after a scientific breakthrough, additional discoveries came easily. Several biologists, notably Walter S. Sutton in the U.S., connected Mendelian inheritance with the known behavior of chromosomes, which are threadlike bodies in the nuclei of cells. When a cell divides nonsexually, as in a growing plant or animal tissue, the chromosomes replicate (make copies of) themselves. Each daughter cell gets a full set, and unless something has gone wrong, it is exactly like the chromosome set of the parent cell (see diagram...
...assert itself only when the corresponding gene from the other parent is also recessive. It may have to wait for many generations (in the case of humans, for hundreds of years) before it gets its innings. Then, free of suppression by a dominant gene, it produces a white-flowered plant or a blue-eyed baby. Or, if it is a bad gene, it may produce a deformed baby or a plant that bears no flowers...
Thomas Hunt Morgan's work won a Nobel Prize, and his laboratory was probably the first in the U.S. to which European scientists and students made serious pilgrimages. Genetic knowledge dredged out of fruit flies had an enormous effect on plant and animal breeding. Geneticists believe that a great bronze statue of a Drosophila. suitably mutated, should be erected in some such place as Iowa, where farm production has been greatly expanded by genetically sophisticated corn...
...chief domestic marketing and refining arm of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). He succeeds Stanley C. Hope, 64, president since 1949, who retires. Naden was born at Methuen, Mass., took a chemistry degree at what is now Lowell Technological Institute ('22), joined Esso in 1927, rose to plant superintendent. In World War II, he pushed expansion of refineries in the East, at first for Esso and then for the Government. Naden advanced to general manager of Esso's manufacturing in 1949, a vice president...
...toolmakers want to see more proof. Said an officer of the Atlantic Machine Tool Works serving the Hartford area: "Sure, the tool business in Connecticut is looking up. When you are flat on your back, where else can you look but up?" Pratt & Whitney Co.'s machine-tool plant at West Hartford says that employment is still off 25% from September. Not until general business improves will the tool business really...