Open AccessCroonian Lecture: — Genetic segregation
Author(s) -
William Bateson
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1920.0022
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , mendelian inheritance , object (grammar) , limit (mathematics) , subject (documents) , unit (ring theory) , range (aeronautics) , epistemology , computer science , genealogy , psychology , biology , artificial intelligence , history , mathematics , philosophy , engineering , genetics , mathematics education , programming language , world wide web , mathematical analysis , gene , aerospace engineering
The later developments of Mendelian analysis have been in the main an attempt to elucidate the scope and nature of Segregation. Mendel proved the existence of characters determined by integral or unit factors. Their integrity is maintained by segregation, the capacity, namely, to separate unimpaired after combination with their opposites. Our first aim has been to discover specifically what characters behave in this way, whether there is any limit to the scope of segregation, or any characters or classes of characters which are determined by elements unable to segregate simply. The second object has been to decide the time and place in the various lifecycles at which segregation occurs. It is with the latter problem that I propose to deal more particularly in this Lecture, but a brief consideration of the range of characters, subject to segregation, is appropriate.