Bateson was the first to suggest the word "genetics" (from the
Greek genno,
γεννώ;
to give birth) to describe the study of inheritance and the science of variation in a personal letter to Alan (or Adam) Sedgwick, dated
April 18,
1905. Bateson first used the term "genetics" publicly at the Third International Conference on Plant Hybridization in
London in
1906, three years before
Wilhelm Johannsen used the word "
gene" to describe the units of hereditary information. Thus the phenomenon of
phenotype was investigated earlier than
genes were discovered.
William Bateson (
August 8,
1861 –
February 8,
1926) was a
British geneticist. He was the first person to use the term
genetics to describe the study of
heredity and
biological inheritance.
Beatrice Bateson. 是傳主夫人： William Bateson, F. R. S. Naturalist (1928, 1985),
這本書，在1930s就有中文本：『巴特遜傳』黃靜淵譯(文言)，商務印書館；台北商務印書館在1971年收入”人人文庫”
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