A Monk And Two Peas

Author : Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753811221
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Monk and Two Peas written by Robin Marantz Henig and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor Mendel was determined to work out how traits are inherited. He spent seven years in his monastery garden experimenting on over 300,000 strains of plants. While Darwin's work provoked agitated debate, Mendel's work was completely ignored. A fellow scientist told him that his work was incomplete and unconvincing. Was he furious that a younger man had struck on something far more original than he could ever produce? After Mendel's death all his papers were burnt. Was this the result of a fit of jealousy by a monk who succeeded him as abbot? Finally, in 1900, Mendel's paper was found, and it became apparent that he was onto something extremely significant. Had Darwin known about his work many of the debates about the details of natural selection might have been resolved.

Author : Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328868257
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monk in the Garden written by Robin Marantz Henig and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed biography of 19th century scientist Gregor Mendel is “a fascinating tale of the strange twists and ironies of scientific progress” (Publishers Weekly). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist In The Monk in the Garden, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly chronicles the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Tending to his pea plants in a monastery garden, the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel discovered the foundational principles of genetic inheritance. But Mendel’s work was ignored during his lifetime, even though it answered the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species. Thirty-five years after his death, Mendel’s work was saved from obscurity when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off his groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. From the perplexing silence that greeted his discovery to his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics, Henig presents a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Though little is known about Mendel’s life, she "has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are" (Washington Post Book World).

Author : Elaine Dewar
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368912
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Tree written by Elaine Dewar and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Tree documents a biological revolution that will change the way you think about the material world, your own life and even the inevitability of your own death Genetic scientists are busily pushing back the boundaries of the humanly possible, climbing the branches of a tree of life that has been grafted by man, not God. Elaine Dewar chronicles the lives, the discoveries, and the feuds among modern biologists, exploring how they have crafted the tools to alter human evolution. She travels the globe on the trail of Charles Darwin and his intellectual descendants, telling the story of James D. Watson and his partner Francis Crick, who first described DNA; of Frederick Sanger, who invented how to sequence genes and won two Nobel prizes; of the computer scientists who put the human genome on the World Wide Web. She visits companies that are trying to turn cloned sheep into pharmacies on the hoof, to resurrect prize cows from the grave, to transplant human genes into mice — ultimately attempting to give us immortality in pieces while trying to keep investors happy. As these tales spill out, we find out how biologists learn by doing: tearing mice and worms and flies and human eggs apart, twinning disparate animal cells and genes together — creating clones and chimeras as outlandish as any sphinx. In public, research biologists often express their good intentions about curing the big diseases. In private, many of them are compelled by furious struggles to be rich, famous and first. Dewar lays bare the motives, conflicts and fears of the men and women whose job it is to trespass the boundaries of what laypeople consider ethical and sacred.

Author : Gregor Mendel
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605202576
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments in Plant Hybridisation written by Gregor Mendel and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiments which in previous years were made with ornamental plants have already afforded evidence that the hybrids, as a rule, are not exactly intermediate between the parental species. With some of the more striking characters, those, for instance, which relate to the form and size of the leaves, the pubescence of the several parts, etc., the intermediate, indeed, is nearly always to be seen; in other cases, however, one of the two parental characters is so preponderant that it is difficult, or quite impossible, to detect the other in the hybrid. from 4. The Forms of the Hybrid One of the most influential and important scientific works ever written, the 1865 paper Experiments in Plant Hybridisation was all but ignored in its day, and its author, Austrian priest and scientist GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL (18221884), died before seeing the dramatic long-term impact of his work, which was rediscovered at the turn of the 20th century and is now considered foundational to modern genetics. A simple, eloquent description of his 18561863 study of the inheritance of traits in pea plantsMendel analyzed 29,000 of themthis is essential reading for biology students and readers of science history. Cosimo presents this compact edition from the 1909 translation by British geneticist WILLIAM BATESON (18611926).

Author : Nathan Monk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540347312
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Peas & a Pod written by Nathan Monk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant with triplets, the father of her babies abandons sixteen-year-old Paula. Her family give her an ultimatum, have the babies terminated or leave home. All alone, Paula decides to keep the triplets and go through with the pregnancy. Although she is strong and smart nothing could prepare Paula when she loses one of the triplets at birth. Sixteen years later Paula is now married and has not only survived having twin daughters but she has thrived. But something keeps nagging at her in the background, will she ever get over the death of her son?Samantha Scott has a secret; it is eating away at her from the inside. Can she live with what she has done? A chance meeting with Paula in the caf� sets in motion the chance for Samantha to put right what she did sixteen years ago. God has forgiven her, but can she get forgiveness from Paula and forgive herself?The lives of two women collide, can forgiveness be found or is time running out and what is this great secret that Samantha carries?

Author : Ian Glynn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191507121
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegance in Science written by Ian Glynn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of elegance in science is not necessarily a familiar one, but it is an important one. The use of the term is perhaps most clear-cut in mathematics - the elegant proof - and this is where Ian Glynn begins his exploration. Scientists often share a sense of admiration and excitement on hearing of an elegant solution to a problem, an elegant theory, or an elegant experiment. The idea of elegance may seem strange in a field of endeavour that prides itself in its objectivity, but only if science is regarded as a dull, dry activity of counting and measuring. It is, of course, far more than that, and elegance is a fundamental aspect of the beauty and imagination involved in scientific activity. Ian Glynn, a distinguished scientist, selects historical examples from a range of sciences to draw out the principles of science, including Kepler's Laws, the experiments that demonstrated the nature of heat, and the action of nerves, and of course the several extraordinary episodes that led to Watson and Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA. With a highly readable selection of inspiring episodes highlighting the role of beauty and simplicity in the sciences, the book also relates to important philosophical issues of inference, and Glynn ends by warning us not to rely on beauty and simplicity alone - even the most elegant explanation can be wrong.

Author : Jess Buxton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405384093
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Genes & Cloning written by Jess Buxton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is a gene? How does cloning actually work? Are designer babies a bad idea? Could we ever clone a human? The Rough Guide To Genes & Cloning answers all these questions and more. From the inside story of cells and their structure and the sleuths who cracked the genetic code to DNA cloning, twins and Dolly the sheep. Illustrated throughout with helpful pictures and diagrams, this Rough Guide turns the microscope on the things that make us what we are.

Author : Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226757749
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Orchard Invisible written by Jonathan Silvertown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco de mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of life on earth. How and why do some lie dormant for years on end? How did seeds evolve? The wide variety of uses that humans have developed for seeds of all sorts also receives a fascinating look, studded with examples, including foods, oils, perfumes, and pharmaceuticals."--Global Books in Print.

Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982274
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life through Time and Space written by Wallace Arthur and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe.

Author : Cheryl Bardoe
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606374187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gregor Mendel written by Cheryl Bardoe and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as the world's first geneticist, Gregor Mendel overcame poverty and obscurity to discover one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science: animals, plants, and people all inherit and pass down traits following the same rules.