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The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

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This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising by fertilisation can thereby have different qualities, that, even under quite similar conditions of life, phenotypically diverse individuals can develop.

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Born: February 3, 1857
Died: November 11, 1927 (aged 70)
Bio: Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms phenotype and genotype.

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