Thomas Hunt Morgan Pioneer of Genetics

Name: Thomas Hunt Morgan Pioneer of Genetics
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ISBN: 9780813193373

ISBN-10: 0813193370

ISBN-13: 9780813193373

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ian Shine, Sylvia Wrobel

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For most of his fellow Kentuckians, the accomplishments of Thomas Hunt Morgan have been overshadowed by the Civil War exploits of his uncle, the Confederate raider. Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics shows that feats performed on the frontiers of science can be as exciting as battlefield heroics, and that the "other Morgan" was as colorful a man as the general.Thomas Hunt Morgan's most noted work, done between 1910 and 1920 at Columbia University, revealed many of the secrets if genetics. Studying hundreds of generations of the fruit fly Drosophilia melanogaster, he and the other scientists in the laboratory called the Fly Room made basic discoveries about chromosomes and the mechanism…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 11/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English