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292 Raphael Falk According to its most widely accepted modern connotation, the word “gene” designates a DNA molecule whose speci ...

Genetic Analysis 293 many repeats (theAlufamily, for example, is represented by∼300,000 members, interspersed with nonrepetitive ...

294 Raphael Falk tion completely. It must be conceived as a generic, instrumental unit of function at the molecular level of cel ...

Genetic Analysis 295 9 CONCLUSION In an editorial in 1995, “Homage to the chromosome”, Joseph Gall wrote: Biological organisms, ...

296 Raphael Falk basis of heredity with Watson and Crick’s model of DNA, further directed research studies to gene function rath ...

Genetic Analysis 297 and catalyzed, actors and ‘reacting substances’” [Keller, 1995, 15-16]. However, to the “American geneticis ...

298 Raphael Falk [Beadle, 1945]G. W. Beadle. Biochemical genetics.Chemical Review, 37: 15–96, 1945. [Beadle and Ephrussi, 1936]G ...

Genetic Analysis 299 [Castle, 1906] W. E. Castle. Yellow mice and gametic purity.Science n.s., 24: 275–281, 1906. [Castle, 1919a ...

300 Raphael Falk [de Vries, 1902–3]H. de Vries.Die Mutationstheorie: Versuche und Beobachtungen ̈uber die Entstehung von Arten i ...

Genetic Analysis 301 [Falk, 2004]R. Falk. Long Live the Genome! So should the gene.History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, ...

302 Raphael Falk [Goldschmidt, 1940]R. Goldschmidt.The Material Basis of Evolution. New Haven: Yale Uni- versity Press, 1940. [G ...

Genetic Analysis 303 [Jacob and Monod, 1961]F. Jacob and J. Monod. Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the syn- thesis of proteins. ...

304 Raphael Falk [Lewontin, 2000]R. Lewontin.The Triple Helix: Genes, Organisms, and Environment.Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard Univer ...

Genetic Analysis 305 [Morgan, 1913b] T. H. Morgan.Heredity and Sex. New York: Columbia University Press, 1913b. [Morgan, 1934]T. ...

306 Raphael Falk [Olby, 1987]R. Olby. William Bateson’s introduction of Mendelism to England: A reassessment. British Journal fo ...

Genetic Analysis 307 [Schwartz, 1998] S. Schwartz.The significance of the trait in genetics, 1900-1945.Unpublished Ph.D. Dissert ...

308 Raphael Falk [Whitehouse, 1965] H. L. K. Whitehouse.Towards an Understanding of the Mechanism of Heredity. London: Edward Ar ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF POPULATION GENETICS Margaret Morrison Genetics, like many other sciences that underwent rapid and extensive d ...

310 Margaret Morrison techniques developed by the early population geneticists, especially R. A. Fisher (1890-1962). In that sen ...

The Development of Population Genetics 311 data. From 1865 onwards his main focus was study of heredity. Galton’s work is especi ...