Multiple choice

Who introduced the term mutation?

  1. Thomas Henry Huxley

  2. Clinton Richard Dawkins

  3. Hugo de Vries

  4. Samuel Wilberforce
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Explanation

Hugo de Vries is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term mutation, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

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