Relationship between transmission genetics and molecular genetics: How does contemporary biology interpret Gregor Mendel’s dominant and recessive characters?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-6224v18i2p111-126Keywords:
History of genetics, Dominance, Recessiveness, Scientific explanationsAbstract
A biochemical explanation of dominance allows the reinterpretation of the phenomenon and the relationship between transmission and molecular genetics. This work discusses the explanations of dominance and recessiveness based on Mendel’s proposal and how contemporary molecular genetics contribute. For this reason, we will consider some authors who, in the 20th century, tried to explain the phenomenon as aspects referring to the articulation between the genetics of transmission and molecular genetics in the interpretation of dominance. The article will try to explain the dominance on two levels, the phenotypic (originally by Mendel) and the molecular, aiming to show that, based on the epistemological approach, they do not deal with the same phenomenon but only with different and historically mixed facts.
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