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Person
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Bateson, William
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Description area
Dates of existence
1861-1926
History
William Bateson was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel. He is the 'Father of Modern Genetics'