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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.

Wilhelm Johannsen

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.

Wilhelm Johannsen

Wilhelm Johannsen

Wilhelm Johannsen

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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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