Genetics

Genetics is the science

Science

Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of knowledge attained by verifiable means....

of gene

Gene

A gene is the unit of heredity [i] in living organisms [i]. ...

s, heredity, and the variation of organism

Organism

In biology [i] and ecology [i], an organism is a living [i] complex adaptive system [i] ...

s. The word "genetics" was first suggested to describe the study of inheritance and the science of variation by the prominent British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country and sovereign state [i] tha ...

scientist William Bateson

William Bateson

William Bateson was a British [i] geneticist [i]. ...

in a personal letter to Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology [i]. ...

, dated April 18, 1905.

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Timeline

1856 Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics.

1916 Ernst Rudin published his initial results on the genetics of schizophrenia.

1932 Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes ''The Causes of Evolution'' and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary scien

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Genetics is the science