SCIENCE
GENETIC AND MENDELS LAW OF HEREDITY
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Genetics
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Eugenics
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Epigenesis
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Epistasis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek ̃ (eû) ‘good, well’, and- (genḗs) ‘come into being, growing’) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding, ” which gained popularity during the early 20th century. Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity.
Detailed explanation-3: -The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens, causing them to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilisation in their own way.
Detailed explanation-4: -[Sir Francis Galton: the father of eugenics]