William Bateson (Robin Hood's Bay, August 8, 1861 – February 8, 1926) was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
Read more about William Bateson: Biography, Work On Biological Variation (to 1900), Founding The Discipline of Genetics, Other Biographical Information
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