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Gregor Johann Mendel is known for his genetic research in tracing the inheritance patterns of certain traits. The importance of Mendel's work did not gain wide understanding until the 1890s, after his death, when other scientists working on similar problems rediscovered his research. Which of the following proponents of Mendel's work coined the word genetics in 1905?
- A Alfred Sturtevant
- B Colin McLeod
- C William Bateson
- D Frederick Griffith
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William Bateson was a British geneticist, a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he eventually became Master. He 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 following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
