Concept 3
Genes don't blend.
Links
- Mendel Web
- This is a site where you can get a lot of information about Gregor Mendel, his life and scientific achievements. Read what Mendel says about the 7 non-blending pea traits. Also read Dr. Margaret Peaslee's essay on her recent travels to Brno and the Mendel museum.
- Electronic Scholarly Publishing
- This site has the entire text for many classic genetics papers which can be downloaded and printed out in PDF format. Mendel's paper (1865) is one of the papers. To view and print these documents, you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader software, available without charge from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Bibliography
- Bowler, Peter J., 1989, The Mendelian Revolution, The Athlone Press, London.
- Dunn, L. C., 1965, A Short History of Genetics, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York.
- Iltis, Hugo, 1932, Life of Mendel, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., London.
- Moore, John, A., 1985, Science as a Way of Knowing, American Society of Zoologists, Thousand Oaks.
- Olby, Robert C., 1966, Origins of Mendelism, Constable and Company Ltd., London.
- Orel, Vitezslav, 1996, Gregor Mendel, the First Geneticist, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Portugal, Franklin H., and Cohen, Jack S., 1977, A Century of DNA: A History of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Stern, Curt, and Sherwood, Eva, R., ed., 1966, The Origin of Genetics: A Mendel Source Book, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco.
- Stubbe, Hans, 1972 (English Translation), History of Genetics, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Sturtevant, A. H., 1965, A History of Genetics, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York.