Question

The term 'Genetics' was firstly used by:

• A. Griger Mendel
• B. Watson Crick
• C. Lord Kelvin
• D. W. Bateson

Answer 1

Answer:

D. W. Bateson

William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.