taken place?
What is the
minimum study that
will reveal the radiation experience?
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radiation had
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it would be worth while to study some of the pollen from the
on
I was talking to a botanist and he thought
I believe, by chromosomal aberrations and this sort of thing
that he could detect persisting radiation damage, and I would
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CONARD:
I don't know how to answer it.
think that this would be a fairly simple study that could be
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coconut trees on some of the island atolls and he thought,
done,
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MILLER:
But it hasn't been”
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CONARD:
Maybe Schull might have something to add.
SCHULL:
You know, the Indians have done sorething
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along this line in the palms associated with “Carilia and they
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to talk about the genetic problem, you can approach this as
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unique yardsticks of radiation damage and therefore you ulti-
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do report a higher frequency of chromosoml abnormalities in
the palm trees that grow in the strip than those that grow
farther away,
But it seems to re that when everyone begins
There are, so far as we now know,no
ean recognize, then you have no means to get at the problem.
There's an observation here that I think is relevant
to what Dr, Taylor, the question that he asked.
1951--I think it was probably 1950--Yimashita
In 1950 or
Cosko, who
is a Japanese cytogenetist at Kyoto University did 2a fairly
extensive study in Hiroshim on the distribution of abnorml
forms of cosmos which is a little garden plant and they could
show a definite correlation between the frequency of aberrant
forms of this plant and distance from ground zero,
So that
it diminished as one went outward although the very things --TAYLOR:
Just looking at people's gardens?
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