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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 ...
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Reginald Punnett and William Bateson were among the first English geneticists. Punnett devised the "Punnett Square" to depict the number and variety of genetic combinations, and had a role in shaping the Hardy-Weinberg law. Punnett and Bateson co-discovered "coupling" or gene linkage.
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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I begin by describing Punnett’s partnership with the geneticist William Bateson, and with the help of their famous comb experiment I explain the function of the Punnett square, which was developed around the same time. Scholarship on the Punnett square has tended to focus on its genesis and its use in research; I build on these accounts by ...
- Matthew Green
- 2019
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.
Overshadowed by his senior colleague William Bateson (1861–1926), for whom the Professorship had been intended, and his successor R. A. Fisher (1890–1962), Punnett played an important role in the early days of Mendelian genetics.
His widow, Beatrice Bateson, wrote a memoir shortly after his death titled William Bateson FRS, Naturalist, His Essays and Addresses, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928, p. 107. Bateson's colleague R.C. Punnett collected his published works in Scientific Papers of William Bateson, Cambridge
