- bacterial colony
- bacteriology
- bacteriophage
- bacterium
- balance
- balanced polymorphism
- Baldwin effect
- basic body pattern
- basic form
- basic pattern
- beanbag genetics
- beauty drive
- behaviour
- behaviour in rehearsal
- behaviour pattern
- behavioural biology
- behavioural ecology
- behavioural inheritance system
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beanbag geneticsBohnenkorbgenetik (ger.)
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In a metaphor Mayr compares the geneticist’s picture of an organism as an assemblage of genes with the accumulation of beans in a bag. (HWB)
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Each gene was essentially treated as an independent unit favored or discriminated against by various causal factors [...] Evolutionary change was essentially presented as an input or output of genes, as the adding of certain beans to a beanbag and the withdrawing of others [...] period of ›beanbag genetics‹Mayr, E. (1959). Where are we? Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 24, 1-14: 2.