We are all different - Walter Bodmer's 1984 Christmas Lectures 1/6
In his first lecture, Walter Bodmer explains how variation in genes can cause many diseases as well as give rise to the normal differences which characterise individuals and populations. This was recorded on 1 Dec 1984. Everybody looks different, apart from identical twins, and many of the differences are inherited. Eye colour, hair colour, taste, smell, blood types and, of course, sex all vary and are inherited. The simplest patterns of inheritance in families gave Mendel his insight into the underlying mechanism.
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