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- At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline.
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Jan 28, 2014 · At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline.
William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
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- genetics
- Royal Medal (1920)
William Bateson (born August 8, 1861, Whitby, Yorkshire, England—died February 8, 1926, London) was a British biologist who founded and named the science of genetics and whose experiments provided evidence basic to the modern understanding of heredity.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
William Bateson vigorously objected to the assumptions within the chromosome theory of heredity proposed by T. H. Morgan because he perceived inadequate experimental data that could substantiate the theory.
- Alan R. Rushton
- 2014
William Bateson coined the term genetics and, more than anybody else, championed the principles of heredity discovered by Gregor Mendel.
- Patrick Bateson
- ppgb@cam.ac.uk
- 2002
However, Bateson was reluctant to believe in the chromosomal theory of inheritance. He was vocally antagonistic to the idea and it wasn't until 1922 after a visit to Thomas Hunt Morgan's fly lab that he publicly accepted chromosomes and their role in heredity.
Mar 2, 2021 · In the early years of the 20th Century, the British geneticist, William Bateson, first at Cambridge University and, later, at the John Innes Institute, was an early and strong proponent of the recently rediscovered Mendelian laws of inheritance (Bateson 1909).
