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THE essence of a satisfactory course in cytology and genetics is that it should be treated as a branch of biology, rather than as something taken from botany added to something taken from zoology. In a word, the course should be given by a cytologist and geneticist. A composite course shared between a botanist and a zoologist, however sympathetic their co-operation, would be likely to reveal incomplete fusion and to result in overlapping, although admittedly it would be vastly preferable to the two separate and entirely uncorrelated courses often given at present.
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JONES, W. Genetics in the Universities. Nature 138, 1058 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381058c0
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