M1-History Flashcards
“Humors” - Body fluids. Bears traits that influences the traits of an offspiring.
Hippocrates
Male semen had a “vital heat” that has the capacity to produce an offspring of the same kind.
Aristotle
Organisms with heritable traits that allow them to survive would be able to adapt and reproduce.
Charles Darwin
Experimented of heredity using garden pea plants (pisum sativum).
Gregor Mendel
Observed statistical patterns on his experiments and developed theories on heredity.
Gregor Mendel
They proposed that chromosome behavior in meiosis mirrors hereditary transmission of hereditary factors.
Sutton-Boveri Chromosome Theory (Walter Sutton & Theodor Boveri)
Correctly explains the mechanism underlying Mendelian Genetics by identifying chromosomes as the paired factors required by Mendel’s laws.
Sutton-Boveri Chromosome Theory
States that chromosomes are linear structures with hereditary factors at specific sites called loci.
Sutton-Boveri Chromosome Theory
Year of Sutton-Boveri Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance.
1902
Year of the rediscovery of Mendel’s Work.
1900
The hereditary material resides in ___________.
Chromosomes
Hardy-Weinberg principle of _______ ___________.
Principle of Genetic Equilibrium (1908)
Theory of quantitative traits and quantitative genetics.
Nilsson-Ehle (1909)