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3 unusual facts about Hugo de Vries


Hugo de Vries

Finally, in a published lecture of 1903 (Befruchtung und Bastardierung, Veit, Leipzig), De Vries was also the first to suggest the occurrence of recombinations between homologous chromosomes, now known as chromosomal crossovers, within a year after chromosomes were implicated in Mendelian inheritance by Walter Sutton.

Ridley, Matt, The Agile Gene, 2003, ISBN 0-06-000679-X, pp 231–2.

He enthusiastically took part in W.F.R. Suringar's classes and excursions, but was mostly drawn to the experimental botany outlined in Julius Sachs' 'Lehrbuch der Botanik' from 1868.


Mutationism

This view was expressed in the writings of key founders of genetics, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, Reginald Punnett, Wilhelm Johannsen, Hugo de Vries, William Bateson and others.

Uniparental inheritance

Although his work was published, it lay dormant until it was rediscovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns but it was not until 1909 that non-mendelian inheritance was even suggested.


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