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WITHOUT an appreciable increase in size, this edition includes adequate treatment of recent work, such as position effect, somatic crossing-over, sahvary-gland chromosomes, cytoplasmic inheritance and heterosis. This has been achieved by considerable rewriting, which appears to have improved the text. This third edition contains a remarkably complete and well-illustrated simple statement of the elements of genetics for biological students. The subjects of crossing-over and the chromosome theory of heredity, highly important in modern genetics, are dealt with particularly well.
Principles of Genetics
Prof.
Edmund W.
Sinnott
Prof.
L. C.
Dunn
By. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Botanical Sciences.) Third edition. Pp. xiv + 408. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1939.) 21s.
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S., F. Principles of Genetics. Nature 143, 876 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143876e0
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