Quotes by William Bateson

About William Bateson:

William Bateson was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
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Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for the proof that "acquired characters" or, to speak more precisely, parental experience can really be transmitted to...

William Bateson

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger th...

William Bateson

In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be adduced as seemingly comparable illustrations of the phenomenon "Variation." Time has shown thi...

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Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Bateson
  • DescriptionBritish geneticist and biologist
  • BornAugust 8, 1861
  • DiedFebruary 8, 1926
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGeneticist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Royal Medal