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Barbara McClintock conducted experiments on corn (Zea mays) in the United States in the mid-twentieth century to study the structure and function of…
TransposonsCornCytogeneticsChromosomesGeneticsSimon Edward Fisher studied the genes that control speech and language in England and the Netherlands in the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
GeneticsWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, England)Language AcquisitionTranscription factorsForkhead Transcription FactorsThe International Eugenics Congresses consisted of three scientific meetings held in London, England, in 1912 and at the American Museum of Natural…
OrganizationEugenics--United States--HistoryEugenicsNazisNegative EugenicsDiana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi…
Prenatal DiagnosisGeneticsGeorge Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora detailed their experiments on how…
GenesGeneticsExperimentsNeurosporaMolecular BiologyIn 1913, Alfred Henry Sturtevant published the results of experiments in which he showed how genes are arranged along a chromosome. Sturtevant…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutationAlfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutationGeorge McDonald Church studied DNA from living and from extinct species in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Church helped to…
DNA SequenceNucleotide sequenceGenesGenomesGeneticsIn 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty published an article in which they concluded that genes, or molecules that dictate how…
LiteratureTransformation, BacterialBacterial TransformationStreptococcus pneumoniaeBacterial geneticsPaul M. Brakefield and his research team in Leiden, the Netherlands, examined the development, plasticity, and evolution of butterfly eyespot…
ButterfliesDevelopmental BiologyPhenotypic plasticityGenotype-environment interactionEvolutionary developmental biology