The Architect of Inheritance

<p>For decades after Darwin the field of biology faced a fundamental crisis: Where was the physical engine of inheritance? The greatest theories of the age were in conflict leaving the mechanism of evolution a mystery.</p><p>Enter <strong>Thomas Hunt Morgan</strong> a brilliant but relentless skeptic who trusted nothing he couldn't observe. His search for the <strong>physical basis</strong> of heredity led him to a small cluttered laboratory at Columbia-the infamous <strong>Fly Room</strong>. Surrounded by thousands of fruit flies Morgan and his young rebellious team were determined to prove all existing theories wrong.</p><p>Then in 1910 the breakthrough came: the discovery of a single mutant fly with <strong>white eyes</strong>.</p><p><em>The Architects of Inheritance</em> is the dramatic story of how this tiny insect and the brilliant minds in the Fly Room unified a broken science. It chronicles Morgan's journey to prove that the 'factors' of heredity-<strong>genes</strong>-were material units physically located on the <strong>chromosomes</strong> launching the modern age of genetics and forever changing our understanding of life itself. Approx.164 pages 30400 word count</p>