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Danish botanist and geneticist

About Wilhelm Johannsen

Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.

Notable works:

Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in Reinen Linien

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This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising… Any
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the… Balance

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