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Traces the development of various theories of evolution. In six 10-minute segments: In the Beginning (the Biblical account of creation and challenges by Linnaeus, Buffon and Lamarck); Darwin, naturally;...
Gobind Khorana, joint Nobel Prize winner for medicine1968, talks about his early education in a village in rural India, his studies at Lahore University and the University of Liverpool, and later in...
Discusses continuous and discontinuous variation, recent techniques in mapping genes on particular chromosomes, the role of inheritance in susceptibility to disease, and IQ and the implications of genetics...
A series in which each programme is a personal account by an eminent scientist of recent changes in scientific thought. Professor Walter Herbert of Harvard University has been engaged for 20 years in...
A discussion of the patterns of inheritance which assumes knowledge of the basic principles of genetics.
Barbara McClintock, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983, talks about herself and her work in modern genetics.
Side 1: Mendel and his experiments. Side 2: Chromosome basis of genetics. Provides a background to Mendelism, outlining the work on plant breeding up to the middle of the 19th century, and discusses the...
Importance of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in heredity; components of a nucleotide and a poly-nucleotide; complementary bases; structure of DNA; splitting and replication of DNA molecule.
Details of the genetic code; ways in which the code is degenerate; functions of ‘start’ and ‘stop’ symbols; mutations and their possible consequences.
An account by Professor Tracy M Sonneborn of his research on a microscopic single-celled animal that exhibits a mechanism of inheritance not directly related to genes in the nucleus.
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