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Which scientist was a trailblazer in the biology field during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

  • Carl Linnaeus

  • Louis Pasteur

  • Charles Darwin

  • William Bateson

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William Bateson was a British biologist and geneticist who was a trailblazer in the field of genetics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first to use the term "genetics" to describe the study of heredity, and he also developed the concept of the "gene" as the basic unit of heredity.
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