HEREDITY (7 films)

Duration: 30 min

Creator: KUHT-TV. Kinescopes

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. 1959. Fact and fallacies connected with such questions as: "Is blood a heredity carrier" and "Are mental illnesses and diseases inherited?" 2. SEXUALITY AND VARIATION. 1959. Discusses connection between sexual reproduction and heredity. 3. REPRODUCTION AND HEREDITY. 1960. Discusses the fallacy of the idea that living things could be produced by spontaneous generation, and tells of the first experiments which proved the principle of biogenesis. 4. MENDEL'S EXPERIMENTS. 1959. Deals chiefly with the work of Gregor Johann Mendel and his question: "What order, if any, exists in the transfer of characteristics from parent to child to grandchild?" 5. FACT AND FALLACY. 1959. Presents and disproves with scientific knowledge many superstitions and folk tales concerning the nature of inheritance and its effects. 6. MANY PAIRS OF GENES. 1959. Explains how the mechanism of inheritance works using diagrams and photographs of several generations of offsprings from selected parents. 7. HEREDITY AND THE CHROMOSOMES. 1959. Describes the theory of location of genes, and explains how the theory of chromosomes, now a fact, was developed and tested.

Complete Record: Source: IndU Interest level: sh-c-ad Price: ea $125, rent ea $5.25 Format: sd b&w

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)