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Woman who contributed to Watson & Crick's discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA
I learned in school that Watson and Crick discovered DNA, but in fact DNA was discovered many years before, and it turns out that it was the structure of DNA that Watson and Crick discovered (or ...
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Who identified the four basic types of animal tissue?
It is stated in innumerous introductory histology texts that there are four basic types of tissue - epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous. I have never come across one that provides a ...
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Francis Crick and the usefulness of "genes" as compared to molecular biochemistry
In lecture 12 of Professor John R. Searle's U.C. Berkeley class, "Philosophy of Mind", he remarks [18m22s]:
We no longer talk mysteriously about how heredity works. We can actually identify ...
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Who was the Northern California pioneer of genetics?
I was telling a friend about a pioneer researcher in genetics who did his work in Northern California around the late 1800s. I was thinking this was in Marin, Sonoma, or Napa County.
When I tried to ...
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Darwin's theory of evolution quote?
A typical quote used to explain the theory of evolution by natural selection is:
"Variation is a feature of natural populations and every population produces more progeny than its environment can ...
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Did Darwin say that the human menstrual cycle length was influenced by the tides?
According to this article from the BBC's Science Focus
Charles Darwin thought that the 28-day human menstrual cycle was
evidence that our ancestors lived on the seashore and needed to
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Did Darwin ever express his views on eugenics?
Although Darwin died a year before the term "eugenics" was coined by his cousin, Francis Galton, Galton had already been working on the idea of using selective breeding to improve humans genetically ...