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Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known characters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

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Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

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We look to medical research to discover remedial measures to insure better health and more happiness for mankind.

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Born: September 25, 1866
Died: December 4, 1945 (aged 79)
Bio: Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.
Known for:
  1. The mechanism of Mendelian heredity (1915)
  2. The theory of the gene (1926)
  3. The Physical Basis of Heredity (1919)
  4. Embryology And Genetics (1934)
  5. Heredity and sex (1913)

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