Project Gutenberg 2015-02-17 Public domain in the USA. 83 Davenport, Charles Benedict 1866 1944 Davenport, C. B. (Charles Benedict) Davenport, Charles B. (Charles Benedict) Morita, Kako Toda, Kenji 10005265 Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl Carnegie Institution of Washington publication no. 121 Papers of the Station for experimental evolution, no. 14 Produced by Frank van Drogen, Nicole Pasteur, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl" by Charles Benedict Davenport is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work explores the inheritance patterns and characteristics of domestic fowl through detailed studies, focusing particularly on traits such as comb shape and feather color. Davenport’s research contributes to the understanding of genetic inheritance and variability in poultry breeds. The opening of the text introduces the foundation of the studies presented, emphasizing concepts of dominance and inheritance related to specific traits in domestic fowl. Davenport discusses the Y comb as an illustration of genetic variability and inheritance patterns, explaining how different types of comb structures arise from parental crosses. He elaborates on the variability observed in offspring and the influence of dominant and recessive traits, ultimately setting the stage for deeper investigations into polydactylism and other inherited characteristics of fowl. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Heredity Poultry QH Text Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Browsing: Science - Genetics/Biology/Evolution 875804 875772 2024-09-20T08:08:53.251380 2023-09-21T05:00:34.983096 text/html text/html 915566 2015-02-17T16:22:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1390812 2015-02-17T16:22:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1393950 2024-09-20T08:09:16.610490 application/epub+zip 1400723 2024-09-20T08:08:56.279327 application/epub+zip 211081 2024-09-20T08:08:54.630336 application/epub+zip 1610273 2024-09-20T08:09:24.133211 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1656040 2024-09-20T08:09:14.688243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 468797 2022-09-21T20:50:16.400004 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 429801 429552 2024-09-20T08:08:45.676394 2023-09-21T05:00:28.232086 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 429705 2015-02-17T16:22:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 116430 2015-02-17T16:22:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18930 2024-09-20T08:09:24.335182 application/rdf+xml 6919 2024-09-20T08:08:54.945330 image/jpeg 1659 2024-09-20T08:08:54.791330 image/jpeg 1411621 2024-09-20T08:08:53.335347 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog