W.E.A., LOWER HUTT.
The final lecture course in biology at the W.E.A., Lower Hutt, dealt with Mendelism. The experiments of Gregor Mendel, i Abbot of Brunn, in Austria, in crossing varieties of the siveetpea were described and illustrated by lantern slides. Bateson says of Mendel: "Untroubled by any itch, to make potatoes larger, or bread cheaper, he set himself in the quiet of a cloister garden to find out the laws of hybridity, and so struck a mine of truth, inexhaustible in brilliancy and profit."- As a result of these discoveries we may now regard the organism, from the point of view of heredity, as consisting of a large number of independent heritable unit characters. Although the factors^ for these characters are closely associated in any one individual, yet when the reproductive cells are formed these factors separate as if independent of each other, and thus at fertilisation new combinations of factors are formed. Instances of the practical application of Mendel's law closed the lecture.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 7
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