"The chemistry of genetics"

Date:
1962
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/3/8
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: "The chemistry of genetics". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ïha Ghealatry of Genetica $h© inside of a ï? mt or a space rocket i* very mm pli eatei» but it 3s nothing like as complicated m m human being* I am not thinking so mch of the way our tdnds work ( they are Quits complicated but the intricate aaiier in which our bodies are built» Obviously the chemical ine tractions needed to produce a human being mast be of oon- eMerable length, sine# not only »st all our parts be rade correctly, so that we have one heart, two lunge f two ©yes mû. so forth, but everything has to be correct âomi to the smallest ¿totali» fe orni see these by looking at Identical twins# How very aaoh alike they are and how different fro» people of other fsallies ana other races» ie tew they sre so similar mainly bee«®e they have started with exactly the same genetie instructions* We also know that# roughly tpeaking, half these instrus tions come fro® the mother and half from the father, and that the latter were contained in a. rather snail object, a single speis» whose head, which contains those inetroot!one, is only about .01 ram, in ôtarneter {See Pig. 1). Everybody knows this, but few people se« to have «fleeted how peculiar it is, although eaefe one of ue started in exactly this way. Hew esa I b© eo like say father when all Ï got fro® his was contained
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