{"id":13738,"date":"2019-06-11T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/hu\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:26:40","slug":"the-emergence-of-genetics-from-festetics-sheep-through-mendels-peas-to-batesons-chickens-by-peter-poczai-at-journal-of-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/en\/the-emergence-of-genetics-from-festetics-sheep-through-mendels-peas-to-batesons-chickens-by-peter-poczai-at-journal-of-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"The emergence of genetics from Festetics\u2019 sheep through Mendel\u2019s peas to Bateson\u2019s chickens by P\u00e9ter Poczai at Journal of Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"viewer\" class=\"viewer-root\">\n<div id=\"viewer-content\">\n<div class=\"pdf-content\">\n<div class=\"page hwa pf w0 h0 open\">\n<div class=\"no-overflow\">\n<div class=\"pc pc1 w0 h0\">\n<div class=\"t m0 x0 h7 y1f ff4 fs3 fc0 sc0 ls6 ws0\">\n<p><strong>Authors:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"test-contributor-names\">\n<li class=\"u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4\"><span class=\"authors__name\">Attila\u00a0T.\u00a0Szab\u00f3 (BioDatLab)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/people\/peter-poczai\/\"><span class=\"authors__name\"><strong>P\u00e9ter\u00a0Poczai<\/strong> (University of Helsinki, FTI-iASK)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"Par1\" class=\"Para\"><em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">It is now common knowledge\u2014but also a misbelief\u2014that in 1905 William Bateson coined the term \u2018genetics\u2019 for the first time in his letter to Adam Sedgwick. This important term was already formulated 81 years ago in a paper written by a sheep-breeding noble called Imre (Emmerich) Festetics, who still remains somewhat mysterious even today. The articles written by Festetics summarized the results of a series of lasting and elegant breeding experiments he had conducted on his own property. Selecting the best rams, Festetics had painstakingly crossed and backcrossed his sheep to reach better wool quality. These experiments later turned out to reveal a better understanding of inheritance outlining genetics as a new branch of natural sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"Par2\" class=\"Para\"><em>The question often emerges as to why genetics started so late, relative to other sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"Par3\" class=\"Para\"><em>In its evolution towards genetics as a well-established scientific field in its own right, the history of \u2018heredity\u2019 has many plots and characters.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/epdf\/10.1007\/s12041-019-1108-z?author_access_token=PzsogIHSjnKVlGz5fu7npve4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5S3pNx7Ol9o8MOH913hwefDsRPq6jSMtzMH-o03uqsOo3VWAoKisk8KrblJMMLHdQu1ssDtJCFompb9vVZReuCFflNtg11XqTG9Bb1gZjIVg%3D%3D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13740\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jg-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/epdf\/10.1007\/s12041-019-1108-z?author_access_token=PzsogIHSjnKVlGz5fu7npve4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5S3pNx7Ol9o8MOH913hwefDsRPq6jSMtzMH-o03uqsOo3VWAoKisk8KrblJMMLHdQu1ssDtJCFompb9vVZReuCFflNtg11XqTG9Bb1gZjIVg%3D%3D\">You can read the whole article HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its evolution towards genetics as a well-established scientific field in its own right, the history of \u2018heredity\u2019 has many plots and characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":15630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,97,38,238],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - 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