Soft Inheritance

88 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Soft inheritance is the term coined by Ernst Mayr to include such ideas as Lamarckism, that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring. It contrasts with modern ideas of inheritance, which Mayr called hard inheritance. Since Mendel, modern genetics has held that the hereditary material is impervious to environmental influences. In soft inheritance "the genetic basis of characters could be modified either by direct induction by the environment, or by use and disuse, or by an intrinsic failure of constancy, and that this modified genotype was then transmitted to the next generation."

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Biologie, Biowissenschaften
• ISBN: 9786133041271
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2010
• Größe: 220 x 150 mm
• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Mariam T. Tennoe, Lambert M. Surhone, Susan F. Henssonow