Charles Darwin's Argument Essay

Within a span of a little over 100 years, the world changed one hundred percent in the amount of knowledge it knew about heredity. Before the mid nineteenth century scientists and people knew relatively close to nothing about why offspring looked similar to the parents. By the end of the twentieth century, scientists and their peers not only knew why, but they could pin point how it happened. This had an effect on every person across the planet, and it all started with just one observation. Charles Darwin, in 1859, released his famous book On the Origin of Species. In this book Darwin discusses a slow change in species over time. He noticed this change in a species of birds. His book created much controversy in both the religious groups and

Miescher believe DNA was an acid, and had nothing to do with heredity because heredity had to be carried on a protein ( a protein is much more complex than an acid); therefore it was much overlooked. In 1875, Walther Flemming discovered a cell, termed the nucleus. The nucleus would prove to be a very crucial part of proving what Mendel was proposing. Flemming discovered that the nucleus would split into two string-like structures that he called “chromosomes”, then it would create two new cells. (Later the new cells are referred to as “daughter cells,”). Walter Sutton, in 1902, made the observation that daughter cells mimicked the chromosomes of the parent cells. Suttons’ observation further proved Mendel’s hypothesis, and also led to more understanding of chromosomes, and the way they duplicate each other. William Bateson did experiments similar to that of Mendel’s sixteen years after Mendel published his paper. When Bateson published his work, he mentioned Mendel in his speech. Bateson noted that “…Mendel’s work…would “certainly play a conspicuous part in all future discussions of evolutionary problems,” (qtd. in Yount). Bateson later termed the coin “Genetics” as what he and many others, including Mendel, were attempting to study. At the time Genetics was termed, the field of Genetics was an extremely popular thing to study. In 1910 geneticist Thomas Morgan was