Heredity and Environment

When the seeds from the above plants were grown the next year at Moulin-sur-Allier, the plants were little different from those commonly cultivated in France for fiber. They were only slightly bushier, and of a somewhat deeper green than the native fiber plants, but did not have the bushy flowering tops or the 

330 meters). The resulting plants were very similar to the first generation Indian and Greek plants grown at Lyon with their bushy odiferous flowers and intense resin production. 

In relation to the role of a hot, dry environment in the production of the THC containing resin, observations made by Bouquet some 40 years ago on an aberrant variety which arose in 1935 in Tunisian crops are of great interest. 

In Tunisia, it arose independently in plantations at Tabarka and Sedjenanc, located some 40 kilometers apart in the muun-uinous region. The seeds originated as usual from the previous year s crop, and the resulting abnormal seeds may have derived from a very few plants of the previous year and ultimately from a mutation occurring in a single plant. 

The threadlike (filiform) stipules at the base of the petioles of the upper leaves are a deeper yellow-orange than normal. The bracts (specialized leaves surrounding the flowers) are better developed, longer and more numerous than usual, forming little tufts. The flowering tops are less numerous, more elongate or less compact than typical with 0 to 8 seeds per inflorescence compared with the normal of 40 to 60. The tops arc not sticky and the minty odor is absent even when the plant is crushed between the fingers. 

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All geneticists are agreed that what is inherited by organisms from their forebears is a range of capacities to respond to a range of environments. The characteristics that an organism possesses are fundamentally the outcome of the interaction of heredity and environment. If we state that characteristics are inherited, we make a false implication that environment had nothing to do with their production. This is never the case. 

In the presentation speech for their joint prize, Professor A. Engstrom stated Today no one can really ascertain the consequences of this new exact knowledge of the mechanisms of heredity. We can foresee new possibilities to conquer disease and to gain better knowledge of the interaction of heredity and environment and a greater un-... 

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Conklin, E. G. 1918. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Conway Morris, S. 1993. The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa. Nature, 361, 219-225. 

Hunt E 1997 Nature vs. nurture the feeling of vuja de. In Sternberg RJ, Grigorenko E (eds) Intelligence, heredity and environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 531-551 Jensen AR 1969 How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement Harv Educ Rev 39 1123... 

The Turkheimer study discussed in chapter 10 pointed out that correlations between heredity or environment and IQ are dependent on socioeconomic class, with environment contributing nearly all the variance for the lower socioeconomic class.81 The study shows us that the contributions of heredity and environment to variance of IQ scores depend on the socioeconomic class of the population tested. The Flynn effect shows us that distributions of IQ scores are artifacts of test construction and depend on the generation tested. Both effects are of great importance for social policy. 

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