OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
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Question
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Who coined the term Gene?
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Watson and Crick
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Mendel
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Rosalind Franklin
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Wilhelm Johannsen
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gregor Mendel: the ‘father of genetics’
Detailed explanation-3: -Johannsen presented his genotype theory as ‘the modern view of heredity’ [p. 131]. He rejected the old ‘transmission’ view which dated from Hippocrates and had dominated biological thinking until quite recently.
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