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    Wilhelm Johannsen (3 February 1857 – 11 November 1927) was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining...
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    as caddisfly larva cases and beaver dams as "extended phenotypes". Wilhelm Johannsen proposed the genotype–phenotype distinction in 1911 to make clear...
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  • amateur economist Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1870–1961), American entomologist, specialist of Diptera Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist, plant...
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  • same genotype. The term genotype was coined by the Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen in 1903. Any given gene will usually cause an observable change in...
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    argued that selection on such characteristics would be ineffective. Wilhelm Johannsen's "pure line" experiments on Phaseolus vulgaris beans appeared to refute...
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    introduced by Danish botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist Wilhelm Johannsen in 1909. It is inspired by the ancient Greek: γόνος, gonos, that means...
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    their evolution. The terms "genotype" and "phenotype" were created by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911, although the meaning of the terms and the significance of...
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    was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T.H. Morgan, all of a rather dogmatic turn...
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  • biologist studying chromosomes in 1900s. Later, Danish researcher Wilhelm Johannsen called the sites of heredity on chromosomes "genes." Thomas Morgan...
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    Patrick Herbert Bellew in 1936. They divorced and she married Max Wilhelm Johannsen in 1946. Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (1915-1992)...
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