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The Rise of the Experimental Method

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Genetics is, in its theories as well as in its experimental method, a branch of reproductive physiology; its technique is that of hybridization, i.e. the pairing of two organisms which differ in heritable tendency. Hence, the practicability of this technique is closely connected with the possibility of hybridization. It is obvious that the admission of this possibility is dependent on the theories and experimental results concerning the process of reproduction. Both in the botanical and in the zoological field, the process of reproduction was the basis for experiments on cross fertilization. The actual process of reproduction was questionable for centuries, and hence the basis of the experiments was not very certain.

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Sirks, M.J. (1956). The Rise of the Experimental Method. In: General Genetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7587-4_4

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