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Answer» Scientists and their contribution: | No. | Scientist | Contribution | Year |
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| i. | Mendel | Father of genetics | 1908 | | ii. | William Bateson | Coined the word genetics | 1906 | | iii. | Hugo De Vries (Holland) Karl Correns (Germany) Erich Tschermark (Austria) | Rediscovered Mendel’s findings | 1901 | | iv. | Johannsen | Coined the word gene | – | | v. | Bateson | Coined the word Allele or Allelomorphs | – | | vi. | Reginald C. Punnett | Devised Punnett square | – | | vii. | H. Nilsson-Ehle | Discovered Polygenic inheritance | 1908 | | viii. | Davenport and Davenport | Studied the inheritance of skin colour in Negroes and albinos | |
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