The Journal of Heredity, Volume 7

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American Genetic Association, 1916
The journal discusses articles on gene action, regulation, and transmission in both plant and animal species, including the genetic aspects of botany, cytogenetics and evolution, zoology, and molecular and developmental biology.
 

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Page 568 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 244 - Labor that any alien so brought to the United States was afflicted with any of the said diseases or disabilities at the time of foreign embarkation, and that the existence of such disease or disability might have been detected by means...
Page 568 - Heredity is that biological law by which all beings endowed with life tend to repeat themselves in their descendants : it is for the species what personal identity is for the individual.
Page 338 - Transactions of the First Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Page 397 - Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC...
Page 283 - But now this large amount of nervous energy, instead of being allowed to expend itself in producing an equivalent amount of the new thoughts and emotions which were nascent, is suddenly checked in its flow.
Page 257 - FGHIJ, and a comma after the longest of these three words: boy mother girl. Then, if Christmas comes in March, make a cross right here , but if not pass along to the next question and tell where the sun rises...
Page 261 - Their forehead is very short and broad, with the nasal end turned up, and the upper lip much drawn back; their lower jaws project beyond the upper, and have a corresponding upward curve; hence their teeth are always exposed. Their nostrils are seated high up and are very open ; their eyes project outwards.
Page 455 - The two sisters are very different in ability and disposition. The one is retiring, but firm and determined ; she has no taste for music or drawing. The other is of an active, excitable temperament ; she displays an unusual amount of quickness and talent, and is passionately fond of music and drawing. From infancy, they have been rarely separated even at school, and as children visiting their friends, they always went together.
Page 455 - They have had exactly the same nurture from their birth up to the present time ; they are both perfectly healthy and strong, yet they are otherwise as dissimilar as two boys could be, physically, mentally, and in their emotional nature.

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