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Genetics is the branch of biology that studies genes, heredity, and variation in living things. It grew rapidly after the rediscovery, around 1900, of Gregor Mendel's earlier work on inheritance in pea plants.

Facts
Founded Year
1905 1
The biologist William Bateson coined the term genetics in an April 1905 letter to Adam Sedgwick, then used it publicly the following year.
Central Question
How much of a heritable trait's variation is caused by genes rather than environment, and how does that balance shift across different populations and settings? 2
Scope
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation and heredity in organisms, and a central branch of biology because heredity is vital to evolution. 2
Significance
An important branch of biology, because heredity is vital to how organisms evolve. 2
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Mendel's 1865 to 1866 pea experiments are the field's intellectual origin, though the name genetics itself was coined later, by William Bateson in 1905, the year recorded elsewhere as when the field was founded.

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Source Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory (Wikipedia)
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Evolution, Theories
Source Evolution (Wikipedia)
Source Mendelian Inheritance (Wikipedia)
Source Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution (Wikipedia)

Studies

Source William Bateson Coins the Term Genetics

Uses

Gel electrophoresis separates DNA, RNA or protein fragments by size under an electric field, a routine bench instrument of genetics.

Source Polymerase Chain Reaction (Wikipedia)
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1. William Bateson Coins the Term Genetics
HistoryofInformation.com (Jeremy Norman & Co.)
  • Timeline entry, 1900 to 1902
    Bateson first used the term genetics publicly at the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in London in 1906.
  • Part Of: Biology
  • Studies: Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
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2. Wikipedia: Genetics
Wikipedia
  • Introduction
    It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution.
  • Founded By: Gregor Mendel
  • In Group: Heredity, Genomics and Molecular Life Sciences, Lead
    is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms
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Gregor Mendel (Britannica)
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Barbara McClintock, Facts (Nobel Prize)
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (Wikipedia)
WikipediaUses: Thermal CyclerView the Source
Genomics (Wikipedia)
WikipediaEncompasses: Genomics, Lead sectionView the Source
David Botstein (Wikipedia)
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Rebecca Cann (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Rebecca Cann, Infobox, fields
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Infobox fields: Anthropology, genetics, ornithology
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Mark Stoneking (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Anthropology, population genetics
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Motoo Kimura (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Evolutionary biology; Population genetics
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Hermann Joseph Muller (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Genetics, molecular biology
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Susumu Ohno (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: genetics, evolution
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Rudolf Jaenisch, Wikipedia
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry; Genetics; Medicine
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Allan C. Spradling (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Genetics
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Gerald Fink (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry, Genetics
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Ronald W. Davis, Wikipedia
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Genomics; Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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Stephen Elledge, Wikipedia
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Infobox fields: Genetics ; Molecular biology
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Wikipedia: Geraldine Seydoux
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Infobox fields: genetics, embryogenesis
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Wikipedia: Hugo J. Bellen
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Infobox fields: Genetics, Developmental Biology, Neuroscience
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Senjuti Saha (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Molecular genetics, microbiology, epidemiology
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Charles David Allis (Wikipedia)
Has Scientist: C. David Allis, Infobox, fields
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Infobox fields: Epigenetics
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Francisco J. Ayala (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Biology, Genetics
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Arun Kumar Sharma (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Cytogenetics; Cytochemistry; Cell biology
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Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Molecular biology ; Epigenetics
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Paul Nurse (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Paul Nurse, Lead sentence
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Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, President of the Royal Society and former Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
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Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Marshall W. Nirenberg, Lead sentence
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927, January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist.
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J. Craig Venter (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: J. Craig Venter, Lead sentence
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John Craig Venter (October 14, 1946, April 29, 2026) was an American geneticist and businessman.
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Nikolai Vavilov (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Nikolai Vavilov, Lead sentence
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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (;, 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
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Werner Arber (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Werner Arber, Lead sentence
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Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist.
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Stanley N. Cohen (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Stanley N. Cohen, Lead sentence
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Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Edward B. Lewis (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Edward B. Lewis, Lead sentence
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Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918, July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Alfred Sturtevant (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Scientist: Alfred Sturtevant, Lead sentence
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Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 - April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist.
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Wikipedia: Victor McKusick
WikipediaHas Scientist: Victor McKusick, Lead sentence
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Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921, July 22, 2008) was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
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Janet Rowley, Wikipedia
Has Scientist: Janet Rowley, Lead sentence
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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925, December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
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Douglas C. Wallace, Wikipedia
Has Scientist: Douglas C. Wallace, Lead sentence
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Douglas Cecil Wallace (born November 6, 1946) is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
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David Baulcombe, Wikipedia
Has Scientist: David Baulcombe, Lead sentence
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Sir David Charles Baulcombe FMedSci FRS (born 7 April 1952) is a British plant scientist and geneticist.
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John Maynard Smith (Wikipedia)
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John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920-19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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Alec Jeffreys (Wikipedia)
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Sir Alec John Jeffreys (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.
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Birendra Bijoy Biswas (Wikipedia)
Has Scientist: Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Lead sentence
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Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1 March 1928-9 June 2018) was an Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist.
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Bruce Beutler (Wikipedia)
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Bruce Alan Beutler ( ; born December 29, 1957) is an American immunologist and geneticist.
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Mendelian Inheritance (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Theory: Mendelian Inheritance, Lead paragraph
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Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson.
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Francis Galton (Wikipedia)
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Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822-17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
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Mona Nemer (Wikipedia)
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Mona Nemer, (born 1957) is a Lebanese-Canadian scientist specializing in molecular genetics and cardiac regeneration.
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Joe Hin Tjio (Wikipedia)
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Joe Hin Tjio (; 2 November 1919-27 November 2001), was an Indonesian-born American cytogeneticist.
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Haseena Khan (Wikipedia)
Has Scientist: Haseena Khan, Infobox: fields
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Genetics, Biochemistry
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Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Theory: Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, Lead, sentence 1
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The neutral theory of evolution holds that most of the genetic variation within and between species is due to random genetic drift of mutant alleles that are selectively neutral.
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Evolution (Wikipedia)
Has Theory: Evolution, Lead, sentence 2
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It occurs when evolutionary processes such as genetic drift and natural selection act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations.
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Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory (Wikipedia)
Has Theory: Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory, Lead, sentence 1
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The Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory (also known as the chromosome theory of inheritance or the Sutton-Boveri theory) is a fundamental unifying theory of genetics which identifies chromosomes as the carriers of genetic material.
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Mary F. Lyon (Wikipedia)
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Mary Frances Lyon (15 May 1925 - 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.
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