Concept 6 Genes are real things.

Links

History of the Light Microscope

This site looks at the evolution of the light microscope. There is a section on Robert Hooke and the microscope he used in Microscopes of the 17th Century.

Mendel Web

This is site where you can get a lot of information about Gregor Mendel, his life and scientific achievements. Read how Mendel and his work have been viewed in this century in Dr. Jan Sapp's essay The Nine Lives of Gregor Mendel.

Bibliography

• Bowler, Peter J., 1989, The Mendelian Revolution, The Athlone Press, London.
• Dunn, L. C., 1965, A Short History of Genetics, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York.
• Editor, 1928, Carl Correns: a Biography, Genetics, 13: ix-x, Genetics Society of America, Palo Alto.
• Iltis, Hugo, 1932, Life of Mendel, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., London.
• Moore, John A., 1985, Science as a Way of Knowing, American Society of Zoologists.
• Olby, Robert C., 1966, Origins of Mendelism, Constable and Company Ltd., London.
• Orel, Vitezslav, 1996, Gregor Mendel, the First Geneticist, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Portugal, Franklin H., and Cohen, Jack S., 1977, A Century of DNA: A History of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Shull, George, 1952, Erich von Tschermak: a Biography, Genetics, 37: 1-7, Genetics Society of America, Palo Alto.
• Stubbe, Hans, 1972 (English Translation), History of Genetics, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Sturtevant, A. H., 1965. A History of Genetics, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York.