{"id":89,"date":"2006-08-15T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/08\/16\/from-misunderstanding-to-dogma\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T20:11:02","slug":"from-misunderstanding-to-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/08\/from-misunderstanding-to-dogma\/","title":{"rendered":"From misunderstanding to dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrg\/journal\/v7\/n8\/abs\/nrg1917.html\">Nature Reviews Genetics Timeline<\/a> features an interesting story on human chromosome numbers. Theophilus Painter in his 1921 Science paper wrote: &#8220;In my own materials the counts range from 45 to 48 apparent chromosomes&#8221; which was interpreted for obvious reasons to be 46 or 48 (Painter probably saw a bended chr1 as 2 different ones). Textbooks then reported 48 human chromosomes for 3 decades until the classical paper of Tijo in 1956 paper who confirmed 46 human chromosomes. Gartler believes that Tijos unusal background have made him likely to question authority. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 14.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nature Reviews Genetics Timeline features an interesting story on human chromosome numbers. Theophilus Painter in his 1921 Science paper wrote: &#8220;In my own materials the counts range from 45 to 48 apparent chromosomes&#8221; which was interpreted for obvious reasons to be 46 or 48 (Painter probably saw a bended chr1 as 2 different ones). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/08\/from-misunderstanding-to-dogma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From misunderstanding to dogma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}