Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press, Incorporated, 1979 - 565 pagine Futuyma (ecology and evolution, SUNY Stony Brook) covers such subject areas as phylogeny, paleobiology, genetic mechanisms of change and speciation, character evolution, the theory of processes and macroevolution, and new molecular perspectives. Numerous line drawings, charts, diagrams, and maps are provided. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... chromosome from a male Drosophila melanogaster and making it homozygous to detect recessive alleles . The chromosomes marked Cy L and Pm carry dominant mutant markers , as well as inversions that prevent them from crossing over with ...
... chromosome from a male Drosophila melanogaster and making it homozygous to detect recessive alleles . The chromosomes marked Cy L and Pm carry dominant mutant markers , as well as inversions that prevent them from crossing over with ...
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... chromosomes ; each part of the chromosome has centromeric activity , so that even small chromosome fragments travel to the poles of the meiotic spindle . But in most organisms the chromosome has a localized centromere and is literally ...
... chromosomes ; each part of the chromosome has centromeric activity , so that even small chromosome fragments travel to the poles of the meiotic spindle . But in most organisms the chromosome has a localized centromere and is literally ...
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... chromosomes Metacentric chromosomes have the centromere somewhere in the mid- dle ; acrocentric chromosomes have the centromere very near the end . The two arms of a metacentric chromosome in one organism are often homologous to two ...
... chromosomes Metacentric chromosomes have the centromere somewhere in the mid- dle ; acrocentric chromosomes have the centromere very near the end . The two arms of a metacentric chromosome in one organism are often homologous to two ...
Sommario
A Synopsis of Evolutionary Theory | 19 |
Heredity and Development | 33 |
The Ecological Context of Evolutionary Change | 51 |
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