biography
| name: |
Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig
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pronunciation:
[johhansen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1927)
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| biography:
| Botanist and geneticist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied in Copenhagen, Germany, and Finland, and worked at the Institute of Agriculture in Copenhagen before becoming professor of agriculture at the university there (1905). His pioneering experiments with princess beans laid the foundation for later developments in the genetics of quantitative characters. The terms gene, phenotype, and genotype are due to him. |
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