Genetics Meet a Scientist

March 2, 2021

What were Waddington's first interest in science as a youngster?

chemistry sets

he was not interested in any science

collecting fossils

bees

None

Who or what stimulated Conrad’s ideas in epigenetics?

His studies of geology

Tutoring from his uncle who ran a drugstore.

Spemann’s ideas about how different tissues form in a fetus.

His father’s ideas about how tea grows.

None

How did Waddington think epigenetics might be involved in evolution? Such changes might:

Change the sequence of A-T, C-G

Alter the environment selective pressures

Change expression of certain genes

He did not think it affected evolution, just embryonic development.

None

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