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(Encyclopedia)genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to genera...conjugation, in genetics
(Encyclopedia)conjugation, in genetics: see recombination. ...Eve, in genetics
(Encyclopedia)Eve, in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people, also known as Mitochondrial Eve. In 1987 biochemist Allan C. Wilson proposed that all living human beings had inh...Adam, in genetics
(Encyclopedia)Adam, in genetics, popular term for a theoretical male ancestor of all living people; see Eve, in genetics. ...Dobzhansky, Theodosius
(Encyclopedia)Dobzhansky, Theodosius dôbzhänˈskē [key], 1900–1975, American geneticist, b. Russia, grad. Univ. of Kiev, 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1927 and was naturalized in 1937. Dobzhansky ...genome
(Encyclopedia)genome: see genetics.genetic drift
(Encyclopedia)genetic drift: see genetics.Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
(Encyclopedia)Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson hôlˈdān, –dən [key], 1892–1964, British geneticist, biologist, and popularizer of science; son of John Scott Haldane. He studied at Oxford until his studies were...Mitochondrial Eve
(Encyclopedia)Mitochondrial Eve, in genetics, a theoretical female ancestor of all living people; see Eve, in genetics. ...Y Chromosome Adam
(Encyclopedia)Y Chromosome Adam, in genetics, a theoretical male ancestor of all living people; see Eve, in genetics. ...Browse by Subject
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