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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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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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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in proteins are connected by amino group-acid group bonds. 1909 – Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word "gene." 1911 – Thomas Hunt Morgan proposed that genes...
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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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units pangenes, a term 20 years later to be shortened to genes by Wilhelm Johannsen. To support his theory of pangenes, which was not widely noticed at...
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