Quotes About Johannsen

The Danish plant physiologist Wilhelm Johannsen gave Mendel's factors a new name: genes. "As to the nature of the 'genes,'" Johannsen warned, "it is as yet of no value to propose any hypothesis.

So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.