Johannsen Coins the Terms “Gene,” “Genotype,” and “Phenotype”
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Genetics
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Scandinavia, Denmark
- Date: 1909
Article abstract: Johannsen helped found the science of genetics with his experimental support for and creation of the concepts of gene, genotype, and phenotype.
Summary of Event
Natural selection is one of the mechanisms for evolutionary change and was formulated first in 1859 in On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. He described a process in which certain individual organisms are better able to survive and reproduce offspring relative to other individual organisms because of inherited differences. Overtime, the inherited properties of a...
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