Archibald garrod biography of mahatma

Archibald Garrod was the first to connect a human disorder with Mendel's laws of inheritance. He also proposed the idea that diseases came about through a metabolic route leading to the molecular basis of inheritance.

Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936)

Archibald Garrod was the son of the physician, Alfred Baring Garrod, who diagnosed and studied rheumatoid arthritis.

Archibald garrod biography of mahatma

Although his father initially intended for Archibald to study business, his teachers recognized and encouraged him to go into the field of science and medicine. Garrod studied medicine at Oxford University and became a physician.

Garrod was studying the human disorder alkaptonuria. He collected family history information (as well as urine) from his patients. Based on discussions with Mendel advocate William Bateson, Garrod deduced that alkaptonuria is a recessive disorder.

In 1902, Garrod published a book called The Incidence of Alkaptonuria: a Study i