The laws of heredity : their definite meaning and interpretation / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.
- Date:
- [1914]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The laws of heredity : their definite meaning and interpretation / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE LAWS OF HEREDITY -- THEIR ea DEFINITE MEANING AND INTERPRETATION T IS traditional that one cannot gather grapes | from thorns nor figs from thistles. The tradi- tion embodies, by implication, the essence of the great central laws of heredity. This law is stated even more explicitly in the colloquial phrase “like produces like.” The sum and substance of the matter is that each and every living organism, be it vegetable or animal, tends to reproduce its own kind, and if we would get at the fundamental laws of heredity we have but to follow up the clew that this familiar fact gives. We may see the principle illustrated to best advantage, perhaps, if we consider the lowly single-celled organisms, of which bacteria furnish a familiar type. These creatures, observed under the microscope, are seen to multiply by division, [1]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33628415_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
