Multiple choice

Who coined the term genetics?

  1. Brian J. Ford

  2. William Bateson

  3. Carl Correns

  4. Leeuwenhoek
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B Correct answer
Explanation

William Bateson was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel .

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