In Pursuit of the Gene

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ancestral inheritance (continued)
Hurst’s doubts about, 313n42;
Pearson’s reworking of, 63, 65, 115,
117, 131, 132–133; Weldon’s defense
of, 125, 127, 131, 143
Anikovo genetic research station, 235
anlag, 106, 108. See also pangenes
Anthropométrie ou mesure des différentes facultés
de l’homme (Quetelet), 79, 80, 81
aphids, 166–168, 171, 172, 175, 319n2.
See also Hemiptera; Phylloxera
Aquitania, HMS, 233
Aristotle, 3
Ascaris (threadworm), 147, 148–149, 150,
151, 153, 154
association of factors theory, 183, 191–
192. See also chromosomes; crossing
over; genes
Auerbach, Leopold, 147, 148, 150
averages, law of, 10
Avery, Oswald, 277
backcross, in hybridization, 306n35
bacteriophages, 232, 277–278, 280
balanced lethal factors, 212, 216, 218,
273, 333n24. See also lethal mutations;
Renner complexes
Bar (Drosophila mutation): Bridges’s misinterpretation
of, 261–262; C �B
chromosome and, 224–225; chromosome
duplication and, 259–262;
cytology of, 259; high rate of reversion
of, 252; as gene evolution
model, 261; ultra-Bar and revertants
generated from, 259–261; unequal
crossing over and, 252–253, 261
“Bar ‘Gene,’ The: A Duplication”
(Bridges), 261
Basset Hound Club Rules and Studbook, The
(Millais), 61–63, 109
Bateson, Beatrice, 65, 109, 143, 228
Bateson, William: on ancestral law, 109,
112, 116–117; chromosome theory
and, 228, 229–230; coupling-repulsion
theory and, 191–192, 310n27,
327n27; on cultivated Cineraria, 54–
55; as defender of Mendelism, 119–
143, 163, 174, 214, 311n13; De Vries
and, 65–66, 83; evolution theory
and, 130, 229, 232; genetics and,
221, 229, 232; in horse color controversy,
132–143; Lychnis hybridization
and, 119–120, 121; and
modifier genes theory, 123, 311n9;
and Morgan, 174, 228, 322n36; in
mouse color controversy, 121–132;
and presence-absence theory of
mutations, 328n40; and rediscovery
of Mendelism, 108–110, 111,
112–116, 117, 191, 308n9; reduplication
theory and, 327n27; as student
of biological variation, 49–53, 60,
61, 65, 110, 194; Weldon and, 47–48,
50–53, 55–60, 114–116, 121–132, 143
Bauer (Communist Party chief of science),
266
Baumgartner, Baron von, 90
Baur, Erwin, 249, 254, 272
beaded-wing (Drosophila mutants), 180,
198–199, 209–211, 212, 213, 217, 237
Beale, Lionel, 18
Beijerinck, Martinus W., 84