78
Note: Boldface page numbers indicate
illustrations.
aging, cells and, 68
Altman, Richard, 32
Avery, Oswald, 38
Baker, John, 16
Bell, Stephania, 8
Benda, Carl, 32
Beneden, Edouard van, 27
bone grafting, 8
bone marrow transplants, 51–52, 53
and database for donors, 57
Boveri,Theodor, 34
Brisseau-Mirbel, Charles-Francois,
17
Brown, Robert, 18
Buckland, Richard, 44
Buck v. Bell
(1927), 31–32
Bush, George W., 56
cancer, cellular basis for, 34
cardiovascular, definition of, 66
cell division, 20
Cell in Inheritance and Development,
The
(Wilson), 29
cell(s)
discovery of, 13
discovery of structures in, 32, 35
generation of, 19–20
reproduction and, 25–27
structure of, 28
cell theory
important events in history of, 6–7
Schwann and, 18
societal implications of, 23
Cellularpathologie
(Virchow), 20
Chargaff, Erwin, 38
chromosomes, 25–26
aging and, 68
cell division and, 27–29
Crick, Francis, 38, 39–40, 40, 41
Cross, James, 66
Darwin, Charles, 23
disease, theories on causes of, 21
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 10–11
definition of, 10
discovery of structure of, 39–41
isolation of, 37–38
mitochondrial, 59–60
Touch, 39
use of, in forensics, 36, 42–46
variations in, 41–42
DNA profiling, 42–46
controversy/privacy issues associated
with, 46–47
double helix, definition of, 40
Dumortier, Barthélemy, 17
Durant, Kevin, 8, 9
Dutrochet, Henri, 17
eugenics, 30–32
fertilization, 26, 27
fetus, human, 65
Flemming,Walther, 25, 26–27
Food and Drug Administration, US
(FDA), 58
forensics, definition of, 44
free cell formation, 20
Galton, Francis, 30
germ theory, 10, 21
Gey, George, 48
globule theory, 16
Golgi, Camillo, 32
Golgi apparatus, 32
Gould, Stephen Jay, 29, 56
Griffith, Frederick, 37–38
Gurdon, John, 60–61
Haeckel, Ernst, 23
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