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Amphioxus, and the Mosaic Theory of Development (1893), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: James Lowe
| Published: Mar 31, 2015
Edmund Beecher Wilson experimented with Amphioxus (Branchiostoma) embryos in 1892 to identify what caused their cells to differentiate into new types…
Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939AmphioxusEmbryosEmbryologyDevelopmental Biology
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on the Midwife Toad (1905-1910)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Kammerer, a zoologist working at the Vivarium in Vienna, Austria, conducted research on…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Midwife toadsKammerer, Paul, 1880-1926. Streitfrage der Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften. EnglishInheritance of acquired charactersAdaptation
Paul Kammerer (1880-1926)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Nov 25, 2014
Paul Kammerer conducted experiments on amphibians and marine animals at the Vivarium, a research institute in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926. Streitfrage der Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften. EnglishInheritance of acquired charactersAdaptationMidwife toads
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on Salamanders (1903-1912)
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 30, 2014
In the early twentieth century, Paul Kammerer conducted a series of experiments to demonstrate that organisms could transmit characteristics acquired…
Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926SalamandraLaboratory animals--Breeding--ExperimentsLamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829. Philosophie zoologique. EnglishHeredity
"The linear arrangement of six sex-linked factors in drosophila, as shown by their mode of association” (1913), by Alfred Henry Sturtevant
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 22, 2017
In 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 studentsMutation
“Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila” (1910), by Thomas Hunt Morgan
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 22, 2017
In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan performed an experiment at Columbia University, in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" (1866), by Johann Gregor Mendel
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Sep 04, 2013
During the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…
GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breeding
Calvin Bridges’ Experiments on Nondisjunction as Evidence for the Chromosome Theory of Heredity (1913-1916)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 18, 2017
From 1913 to 1916, Calvin Bridges performed experiments that indicated genes are found on chromosomes. His experiments were a part of his doctoral…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on Sea-squirts in the Early Twentieth Century
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Apr 13, 2015
In the early twentieth century, Paul Kammerer, a zoologist working at the Vivarium in Vienna, Austria, experimented on sea-squirts (Ciona…
Sea SquirtsCiona intestinalisKammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Laboratory animals--Breeding--ExperimentsAdaptation
Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Dec 12, 2013
Oswald Theodore Avery studied strains of pneumococcus of the genus Streptococcus in the US in the first half of the twentieth century. This bacterium…
Bacterial TransformationDNAHeredityPathologyImmunology