The Organism as a Whole
by Jacques Loeb
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About this eBook
- Author
- Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924
- Title
- The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Thiers Halliwell, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Mendel's law
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45962
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45962
- Release Date
- June 14, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Organism as a Whole
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.The Organism as a Whole
- 5.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
- 6.CHAPTER II — THE SPECIFIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING AND DEAD MATTER AND THE QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
- 7.CHAPTER III — THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF GENUS AND SPECIES — I. The Incompatibility of Species not closely Related — II. The Chemical Basis of Genus and Species and of Species Specificity
- 8.CHAPTER IV — SPECIFICITY IN FERTILIZATION
- 9.CHAPTER V — ARTIFICIAL PARTHENOGENESIS
- 10.CHAPTER VI — DETERMINISM IN THE FORMATION OF AN ORGANISM FROM AN EGG
- 11.CHAPTER VII — REGENERATION
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — DETERMINATION OF SEX, SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS, AND SEXUAL INSTINCTS — I. The Cytological Basis of Sex Determination — II. The Physiological Basis of Sex Determination
- 13.CHAPTER IX — MENDELIAN HEREDITY AND ITS MECHANISM 200 — I — II
- 14.CHAPTER X — ANIMAL INSTINCTS AND TROPISMS 217
- 15.CHAPTER XI — THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT
- 16.CHAPTER XII — ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — EVOLUTION
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — DEATH AND DISSOLUTION OF THE ORGANISM
- 19.INDEX
- 20.Putnam’s Science Series — FOOTNOTES:
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