Beyond the gene : cytoplasmic inheritance and the struggle for authority in genetics

• Main Author: Sapp, Jan
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 1987; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cytogenetics; Cytoplasmic inheritance
• ISBN: 9780195042061; 0195042069

The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics.In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Defining the Organism -- The Organism as a Chinese Box -- The Organism as a Whole -- Compromising the Chromosomes -- More Parts to the Whole -- Defending the Chromosomes -- Chapter 2. Constructing Heredity -- Disciplines in Conflict -- Genotype/Phenotype: A Discursive Tactic -- The Rise of American Genetics and the Determinist Gene -- Chapter 3. Challenging the Nuclear Monopoly of the Cell in Germany -- The Conditions for the Possibility -- The Gradual Disappearance of Victor Jollos -- Subsumed Under a Single Formula": The Case of Richard Goldschmidt -- Hans Spemann: The Magnetic Order of Cells -- Assembling the Plasmon -- The Scotch Verdict, 'Not Proven' -- Chapter 4. T. M. Sonneborn: Making Plasmagenes in America -- Learning to Dissent -- Plasmagene Theory -- I Always Liked Unorthodoxy -- The Way to Power -- From Plasmagenes to Human Serfdom -- Chapter 5. Boris Ephrussi and the Birth of Genetics in France -- The Neo-Lamarckian Hegemony -- From Embryology to Physiological Genetics -- The Competitive Strategy of French Genetics -- Still Threatened with Vertigo -- Position Effect -- A Common Language and a Common Ideology -- Accounting for Mendelian Error -- Chapter 6. The Cold War in Genetics -- Propaganda in America -- Ultra-conservative Anti-genetics in France -- Chapter 7. Problems with "Master Molecules -- Opposing "Dictatorial Elements": Democratic Steady States -- The Cell as an Empire": Cytoplasmic DNA -- Structural Guidance: "A Virus is Far from a Cell -- Chapter 8. Patterns of Power -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z