An episode of Fall Asleep to Science about the history of genetics was recently published. In this episode, listeners will hear about the development of genetics as a science, discover the four major theories on inheritance that have existed since about 450 BC, and learn about the major contributors to our understanding of genetics. This episode journeys through time to learn how the human genome was first sequenced, then explores chromosomes and the cellular stages of reproduction in meiosis and mitosis.
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Genetics is all about the fundamental basic principles of inheritance, including what they are and how they come about.
It is the Science of Potential, the transfer of biological information from cell to cell, parent to offspring, and generation to generation.
Genetics is concerned with why and how biological information transfers, because biological information transfer is the basis for differences and similarities recognized in groups of living organisms
Genetics explains the physical and chemical nature of biological information and asks,
● What are the sources of genetic information? And
● What are the differences?
To put the study of genetics into perspective, the pedigrees of animals and plants started 6000 years ago with initialization of breeding regimes. In fact, the oldest known genetic records are on horses…
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