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.
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Founded YearThe biologist William Bateson coined the term genetics in an April 1905 letter to Adam Sedgwick, then used it publicly the following year. Central QuestionHow 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 ScopeGenetics is the study of genes, genetic variation and heredity in organisms, and a central branch of biology because heredity is vital to evolution. 2 SignificanceAn important branch of biology, because heredity is vital to how organisms evolve. 2 Genetics
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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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Gel electrophoresis separates DNA, RNA or protein fragments by size under an electric field, a routine bench instrument of genetics.
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1. William Bateson Coins the Term Genetics
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Bateson first used the term genetics publicly at the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in London in 1906.
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It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution.
- Founded By: Gregor Mendel
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is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms
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Infobox fields: Anthropology, genetics, ornithology
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Infobox fields: Anthropology, population genetics
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Infobox fields: Evolutionary biology; Population genetics
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Infobox fields: Genetics, molecular biology
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Infobox fields: genetics, evolution
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry; Genetics; Medicine
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry, Genetics
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Genomics; Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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Infobox fields: Genetics ; Molecular biology
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Infobox fields: genetics, embryogenesis
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Infobox fields: Genetics, Developmental Biology, Neuroscience
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Infobox fields: Molecular genetics, microbiology, epidemiology
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Infobox fields: Epigenetics
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Infobox fields: Biology, Genetics
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Infobox fields: Cytogenetics; Cytochemistry; Cell biology
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Infobox fields: Molecular biology ; Epigenetics
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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 Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927, January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist.
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John Craig Venter (October 14, 1946, April 29, 2026) was an American geneticist and businessman.
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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 (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist.
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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 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 Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 - April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist.
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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 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 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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Sir David Charles Baulcombe FMedSci FRS (born 7 April 1952) is a British plant scientist and geneticist.
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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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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 (1 March 1928-9 June 2018) was an Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist.
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Bruce Alan Beutler ( ; born December 29, 1957) is an American immunologist and geneticist.
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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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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, (born 1957) is a Lebanese-Canadian scientist specializing in molecular genetics and cardiac regeneration.
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Joe Hin Tjio (; 2 November 1919-27 November 2001), was an Indonesian-born American cytogeneticist.
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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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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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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 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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