184 HEREDITY AND VARIATION 



PROBLEM QUESTIONS 



1. What do we mean by variation? Heredity? 



2. Show how these factors work in plant or animal breeding. 



3. What is hybridization ? 



4. Who is Luther Burbank and what has he done? 



5. Why should farmers select seeds with great care? 



6. What part of egg and of sperm cells has to do with heredity? 



7. Who was Mendel, and what is his law? 



8. What did De Vries do in the problem of heredity? 



9. What is meant by eugenics ? 



10. What is meant by euthenics ? 



11. How might alcohol play a part in the problem of heredity? 

 (See Civic Biology, pages 289-294, 361-372.) 



12. What have clean thoughts to do with a clean body? 



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