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The term ‘gene’ was coined by - |
A. | T. H. Morgan |
B. | W. L. Johanssen |
C. | G. Mendel |
D. | De Vries |
Answer» B. W. L. Johanssen | |
Explanation: Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist. His most well-known research concerned so-calledpure lines of the self-fertile common bean. He was able to show that even in populations homozygous for all traits, i.e. without genetic variation, seed size followed a normal distribution. This was attributable to resource provision to the mother plant and to the position of seeds in pods and of pods on the plant. |
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