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Sinnott, Edmund W.

Principles of genetics / Edmund W. Sinnott, L. C. Dunn and Theodosius Dobzhansky. - 5th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 1958 - xiv, 459 p. illus. 26 cm. - McGraw-Hill publications in the botanical sciences .

includes appendix, bibliography and index


1. Heredity and the continuity of life;
2. Heredity and environment;
3. Mendel's law of segregation;
4. Segregation of genes and chromosomes;
5. Simple mendelian traits in man;
6. Mendel's principle of independent assortment;
7. The expression and interaction of genes;
8. Multiple-factor inheritance;
9. Allelism and pleiotropism;
10. Lethal genes, penetrance and expressivity;
11. The nature-nurture problem in man: twin studies;
12. Sex-linked inheritance;
13. Linkage and crossing over;
14. Genetic maps of chromosomes;
15. Chromosome aberrations and cytological maps;
16. Spontaneous mutation;
17. Induced mutation;
18. Genes in populations;
19. Crossing, selfing, inbreeding and heterosis;
20. Genetics of race formation;
21. Genetics of species formation;
22. Determination of sex;
23. Varieties of sexual reproduction;
24. Physiological genetics;
25. The genic control of development;
26. Cytoplasm in heredity and development;
27. The elements of the genetic system;
28. Organization of the genetic material;
29. Statistical inference in genetics


Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genetics.
Variation (Biology)
Eugenics.

Dewey Class. No.: 575.1 / S61796