GENETICS AND EUGENICS

ISBN: 9781330051269 Géneros: PSAJ Sinópsis: Excerpt from Genetics and Eugenics A TextBook for Students of Biology and a Reference Book for Animal and Plant BreedersThis book is an attempt to present in a form as simple and readily intelligible as possible the subject of heredity as related to man and his creatures the domestic animals and cultivated plants To write such a book has been with the author a long cherished ambition but one which as the years went by seemed less and less likely of realization as knowl edge oi the subject increased and took on more and more complicated forms Each year however he has been forced by his responsibilities as a teacher to make for students having only an elementary knowledge of biology an analysis and summary of our knowledge of this subject to date The longer he has continued to do this the more fully he has realized that a subject in a state of healthy growth can never assume a final and finished form He makes no apology therefore for presenting the subject with very unevenly and incompletely developed parts Such it must be confessed is the present state of our knowl edgeAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works