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Eugenics is the study of
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Kiruthika. S said:
6 years ago
Gregor Mendal is a founder of Genetics.
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Fouzia Fatima said:
7 years ago
How Eugenics alter the genetic component of the human body?
How the Process of alteration takes place?
How the Process of alteration takes place?
Mali said:
9 years ago
What happens when we change genetic component?
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Suryansh said:
10 years ago
Who was the founder of genetic?
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Ganapuramhariprasad said:
10 years ago
What is the study of eugenics?
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Junior said:
1 decade ago
Eugenics is the change in human genetic component.
Mr. Perfect said:
1 decade ago
Eugenics, as a modern concept, was originally developed by Francis Galton. It has roots in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States in the 1860s-1870s. Galton had read his cousin Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which sought to explain the development of plant and animal species, and desired to apply it to humans. Galton believed that desirable traits were hereditary based on biographical studies. In 1883, one year after Darwin's death, Galton gave his research a name: "eugenics". Throughout its recent history, eugenics remains a controversial concept.
As a social movement, eugenics reached its greatest popularity in the early decades of the 20th century. At this point in time, eugenics was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions.
Many countries enacted various eugenics policies and programmes, including: genetic screening, birth control, promoting differential birth rates, marriage restrictions, segregation (both racial segregation and segregation of the mentally ill from the rest of the population) , compulsory sterilization, forced abortions or forced pregnancies, and genocide.
Most of these policies were later regarded as coercive or restrictive, and now few jurisdictions implement policies that are explicitly labelled as eugenic or unequivocally eugenic in substance.
As a social movement, eugenics reached its greatest popularity in the early decades of the 20th century. At this point in time, eugenics was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions.
Many countries enacted various eugenics policies and programmes, including: genetic screening, birth control, promoting differential birth rates, marriage restrictions, segregation (both racial segregation and segregation of the mentally ill from the rest of the population) , compulsory sterilization, forced abortions or forced pregnancies, and genocide.
Most of these policies were later regarded as coercive or restrictive, and now few jurisdictions implement policies that are explicitly labelled as eugenic or unequivocally eugenic in substance.
Shitalkumar chougule said:
1 decade ago
when n where the first time EUGENICS done???
Jagapathi said:
1 decade ago
Eugenics is the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating.
In Huxley's day eugenics happened only by government mandate; now it will take government mandate - a ban on genetic tinkering - to prevent it.
In Huxley's day eugenics happened only by government mandate; now it will take government mandate - a ban on genetic tinkering - to prevent it.
Malav said:
1 decade ago
What is genetic components ?
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