Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain fundamental laws of inheritance. When you purchase through links on our ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

“We are so far from a perfect understanding of life that even active workers in biological research cannot agree as to the real nature of life—whether it is purely a matter of chemistry and physics ...