MENDELIZE, to follow Mendel's laws of inheritance.
MORES (customs), the approved customs or unwritten laws of a
people; the conventions of society; popular usage or folk-ways which are
reputable.
MUTATION (change), has now two accepted meanings: (1) a
profound change in the germ-plasm of an organism such as will produce
numerous changes in its progeny; and (2) a discontinuous heritable
change in a Mendelian factor. It is used in the first sense by De Vries
and other "mutationists" and in the second sense by Morgan and other
Mendelists; confusion has arisen from failure to note the difference in
usage.
NORMAL CURVE, the curve of distribution of variations of
something whose variations are due to a multiplicity of causes acting
nearly equally in both directions. It is characterized by having more
individuals of a mediocre degree and progressively fewer above and below
this mode.
NUCLEUS (little nut), a central, highly-organized part of every
living cell, which seems to play a directive role in cell-development
and contains, among other things, the chromosomes.
PATENT (lie open), a term applied to traits which are
manifestly represented in the body as well as the germ-plasm of an
individual.
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