INDEX 



Lathyrus, 158, 218 



Lavatcra, 211 



Lawrence, 164, 254 



Li'bistcs, 50, 336, 340, 341, 346 



Lens, 168 



Lcpidoptcra, 52 



lethal, u. gene 



Levit, 366 



Lewis, 248, 332 



L'Herider, 215 



life cycle, 24, 29, 189^^. 



Lilium, 139, 288 



Limnea, 192 



Lindegren, 180 



linear order, 43 



linkage, 41, 68, 85 sqq., 130, 299 



and variability, 287 sqq. 

 linkage map, no, 114, 134 

 Linum, 174 



localization, 30, 289, 335 

 Lolium, 234 

 Lotus, 311 

 Luria, 210, 275 



Lycopersicum, 95, 135, 242, 255, 293 

 Lymantria, 166, 258 

 Lythrum, 250 sqq. 



McCUntock, 330 



Macklin, 350 



McLennan, 354 



Magnoliales, 324 



Maheshwari, 200 



maize v. Zea Mays 



male-sterility, v. sterility 



mammals, 49, 227, 253 



man, 49, 51 sqq., 91, 153, 253, 282, 346 



blood, 194 

 map, linkage, 45, 47 

 Marchantia, 327 

 marriage, 347 sqq. 

 mating 



continuum, 302 sqq. 

 discrimination, 252 sqq., 298 



legitimate and illegitimate, 249 



premature, 260 



random, 277, 282 

 mean, 58, 78, 8i 

 Mecostethus, 289 

 Medawar, 216 

 medical genetics, 352 

 meiosis, 24, 28, 53, 97, 121, 148, 290 



cause of, 196 



in polyploids, 122, 140 

 Melandrium, 52, 204, 256 

 Mendel, 36, 55, 93, 262, 274, 369 



mendelian experiment, 36, 55, 132, 150, 

 346 

 inheritance, 55, 66, 68 

 method, 36 sqq., 66, 68 

 Menzies-Kitchen, 284 

 merogon, 18, 168 

 metaphasc, 23, 31 

 metastasis, 212 

 microsome, 207 

 mid-parent, 81 

 millet, V. Sorghum 

 misdivision, 103, 104 

 mitochondria, 207 

 mitosis, 23 sqq., 145, 194 

 Moewus, 44 

 monoecy, 242 

 monosomic, 105 

 Morgan, 42, 112, 197 

 Morris, 219 

 mosquitoes, 339 

 mosses, 189 



See also Funaria 

 mother cell, 29, 45 

 mouse, 116, 118, 160, 213 

 Mucor, 240 



Muller, 45, 119, 152, 210, 331 

 mustard gas, 100 

 mutafacience, 173, 211 

 mutant, 95, 327 



in Oenothera, 263 

 mutation, 106, 114, 152, 272 



chemical, 184, 212 



lethal, 272 



plastid, 171 sqq. 

 rate, 155 



somatic, no, 214, 227 

 theory of evolution, 263 



virus, 210, 219 



Nabours, 335 

 Narcissus, 251 

 natural selection, 273, 275, 282, 305, 306 



in man, 359 

 neomorph, 152 

 Neurospora, 162, 342 

 Nicandra, 104 



Nicotiana, 70, 71, 168, 174, 245, 256 

 Nilsson-Ehle, 62, 64, 65 

 Nishiyama, 338 

 non-disjunction, 128 

 normal curve, 57, 58 

 nuclear membrane, 203, 221 

 nucleic acid, 145, 155, 194. 207, 268 

 nucleoli, 23 sqq., 32, 146, 211, 330 

 nucleotide, 148 



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