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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. His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was ...
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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. A dedicated evolutionist, he cited embryo studies to support his contention in 1885 that ...
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Jan 28, 2014 · Bateson, William, 1861-1926 Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884. 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 ...
William Bateson. Prior to his rediscovery of Mendel in or around 1900, William Bateson’s work focused on biological variation, in the hopes of elucidating specific mechanisms of natural selection. His prominence as a biologist in his time increased as he defended Mendelism and (with his colleagues, who were atypically for his time often women ...
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Aug 8, 2017 · August 2017 1 Tabea Tietz. William Bateson drawing (1861-1923) On August 8 1861 , English biologist William Bateson was born. Bateson was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief popularizer of the ideas of Gregor Mendel [ 7] following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
May 23, 2018 · Bateson, William. ( b. Whitby, England, 8 August 1861; d. Merton, London, England, 8 February 1926) morphology, genetics. Bateson was the son of William Henry and Anna Aiken Bateson, His father, as classical scholar, had become master of St, John’s College, Cambridge (1857), and Bateson lived in that university town until 1910. In that year ...
William Bateson coined the term genetics and, more than anybody else, championed the principles of heredity discovered by Gregor Mendel. Nevertheless, his reputation is soured by the positions he took about the discontinuities in inheritance that might precede formation of a new species and by his reluctance to accept, in its fullblooded form, the view of chromosomes as the controllers of ...
