Who is known as the father of modern genetics?
Isaac Newton
William Bateson
Albert Einstein
Robert Hooke
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William Bateson is known as the father of modern genetics. He is credited with coining the term genetics in 1905. Bateson was a British biologist who studied the inheritance of traits in plants and animals. He developed the concept of the gene, and showed that genes are passed from parents to offspring. Bateson's work laid the foundation for the modern understanding of genetics.
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