Problems of genetics / by William Bateson.

  • Bateson, William, 1861-1926.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Problems of genetics / by William Bateson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MERISTIC PHENOMENA 39 the outward symptoms of division, but we have no surmise as to the nature of the process by which the division is begun or accomplished. I know nothing which to a man well frained in scientific knowledge and method brings so vivid a realisation la Oc ^ Fig. 2. Jaws of Skates (Khinoptera) showing meristic variation. (For a detailed discussion see Materials for the Study of Variation, p. 259.) of our ignorance of the nature of life as the mystery of cell- division. What is a living thing? The best answer in few words that I know is one which my old teacher, Michael Foster, used to give in his lectures introductory to biology. A living thing