The search for human chromosomes : a history of discovery / Wilson John Wall.

Author: Wall, W. J. (Wilson J.) author.

Imprint:Cham : Springer, [2016]

Descriptionvii, 179 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Note:1. Background to the hunt for the human chromosome number -- 2. Microscopes and stains, the rise of technology -- 3. Mendel and Genetics -- 4. Chromosomes as the carriers of heredity -- 5. Difficulties of chromosome handling and access to material -- 6. The Implications of DNA structure -- 7.: Tissue culture and the cell cycle, the answer Is revealed -- 8. The flowering of clinical genetics -- 9. Sex and chromosomes -- 10. What we know, what we dont and where this may lead us.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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