Tracy Sonneborn
Tracy Sonneborn · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who pioneered the genetics of protozoa and cytoplasmic inheritance.
1905, Baltimore, Maryland, United States — 1981, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
United States
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Tracy Morton Sonneborn was an American biologist who pioneered the genetics of the protozoan Paramecium and demonstrated cytoplasmic (non-nuclear) inheritance, showing that heredity is not carried by nuclear genes alone. His work opened the study of extranuclear and epigenetic inheritance. Born to a Jewish family in Baltimore, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Geneticist who pioneered the genetics of protozoa and cytoplasmic inheritance.
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