Chromatin Evolving
By Gregory Alan Babbitt
Despite our long familiarity with the chromosome, much about its function and evolution remains a mystery
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January-February 2011
Volume 99, Number 1
Page 48
DOI: 10.1511/2011.88.48
In 1897, the American cytologist Edmund Beecher Wilson of Columbia University published his great work, The Cell in Development and Inheritance. Wilson synthesized much of what had been previously observed and deduced about the hereditary role of the cell nucleus in the nearly 40 years prior to the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work, which in turn would lay the foundations of modern genetics.
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