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Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (/ ˈ p ʌ n ɪ t /; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square , a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Reginald Punnett (born June 20, 1875, Tonbridge, Kent, England—died January 3, 1967, Bilbrook, Somerset) was an English geneticist who, with the English biologist William Bateson, discovered genetic linkage. Educated at the University of Cambridge, Punnett began his professional research with structural studies of marine worms.
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Reginald Punnett was a zoologist and a pioneer of genetics in England. He devised the Punnett Square, collaborated with William Bateson on Mendelian inheritance, and helped formulate the Hardy-Weinberg law.
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In 1912, when William Bateson decided not to return to Cambridge, Punnett became the first Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the university. He worked on the genetics of sweet pea, maize and poultry, developing many breeds. He even used linkage as a way to sex type baby chicks.
R. C. Punnett, the codiscoverer of linkage with W. Bateson in 1904, had the good fortune to be invited to be the first Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, in 1912 when Bateson, for whom it had been intended, declined to leave his new appointment as first Director of the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
- A. W. F. Edwards
- 10.1534/genetics.112.143552
- 2012
- Genetics. 2012 Sep; 192(1): 3-13.
During his long career, Balfour conducted detailed breeding experiments with chickens, experiments that are themselves bound up with the invention for which he is best known today, the Punnett square, a tabular array still used in genetics to represent the outcome of a cross between two organisms.
A British geneticist who extended Mendelian genetics and bio-engineered autosexing chicks. He taught and researched at Cambridge University and received the first Arthur Balfour Chair of Genetics and a Darwin Award.
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