William Bateson
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William Bateson was an English biologist who coined the term genetics to describe the study of heredity. His popularization of Gregor Mendel's work following its rediscovery in 1900 earned him the nic
William Bateson
Crayon drawing by the biologist Dennis G. Lillie, 1909
Mendelian inheritance
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Mendelian inheritance is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and l
William Bateson
…Mendel had already conducted, and which would be "rediscovered" by de Vries and Correns just six months later. Bateson became famous as the outspoken Mendelian antagonist of Walter Raphael Weldon, his former teacher, and of Karl Pearson who led the biometric school of thinking. The debate centred on saltationism…
Myosotis: Colour and distribution of colours are inherited independently.