JOHANNSEN, Wilhelm Ludvig (1857 – 1927)
1857 – 1927
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1903 CE
#242
Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.
More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…
1909 CE
#6844
Elemente der exacten Erblichkeitslehre.
In this work Johannsen coined the term “gene” as the “underlying structure in the organism, that which was transmitted during hybridzation.” He also coined the term "phenotype" to express what …