Eine kurze Geschichte der Genetik

Genetic research, DNA, genes and genomes, genetics in agriculture and medicine, in education and psychology - these terms are ubiquitous not only in professional circles but also in the feuilletons of newspapers, in radio, television and public debates of the 21st century. However, not everyone is aware or aware that genetics is a relatively young science and only took shape at the beginning of the last century. The central concept of the gene has constantly acquired new and different meanings over the decades up to the present day, often fraught with all kinds of ambiguities and inaccuracies, even abstruseness, if one thinks of the aberrations of eugenics and the discussions about the hereditability of intelligence. Genetic engineering has given rise to numerous debates throughout the world which continue to this day; new battles are being fought over genes in food, genes a.