Briefly describe the contribution each of the following people...

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Briefly describe the contribution each of the following people made to the development of genetics or genetic analysis. William Bateson:

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Hello, everyone. Let's look at our next problem. Who was the scientist that studied organisms variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory. Well, this scientist would be choice. A William Bateson. Coming after Darwin, he applied Mendel's work on genetics on gene inheritance with Darwin's theory of evolution. So he actually and then coined the term genetics for this new study. So sort of the inventor of idea of genetics and made that key connection between Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Mendel's discovery of how traits were inherited through parents put those two together to show that that was the method by which traits were passed on and natural selection could act upon them. Let's look at another interesting answer choices to see why they're not correct choice. B Marie Curie most famous for her work and her discovery of radium and polonium and her work with radio activity then led to the understanding of treatments for cancer involving radiation. So that's not our answer choice. That's what we're looking for. Choice. C, Rosalind Franklin, her X ray crystal graphs, images of the structure of D N A allowed Watson and Crick to come up with that model of the double helix structure of D N A. But her discoveries were about the structure of D N A, not the combination of uh Mendel's theories and Darwin's theories, that's why that's not correct. And then finally, Robert Choice D Robert Hooke who discovered the cell as a basic unit of life by looking at microscopic images of cork and seeing these little tiny cells within it. Um He didn't have an understanding of how the cells worked, but just that living things were divided into these cells, but that's not the answer we're looking for. So choice D is not our answer. So again, who was the scientist that studied organisms variation and the heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory? And that was choice a William Bateson. See you in the next video.

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Briefly describe the contribution each of the following people made to the development of genetics or genetic analysis. William Bateson: