Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments i
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Denmark. It was founded in 1856 and operated until 2007, when it became a part of the Universit
Wilhelm Johannsen
…He showed that dormancy could be broken by various anesthetic compounds, such as diethyl ether and chloroform. In 1892, he was appointed lecturer at Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and later became professor of botany and plant physiology. He taught plant physiology. His best-known research concerned so-called pure lines of the…