John Bretland Farmer
British botanist (1865–1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people with the same name, see John Farmer (disambiguation).
Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS[1] FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905.[2]
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Sir John Farmer | |
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Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Spouse | Edith May Gertrude Pritchard |
Awards | FRSE; FRS; Knighthood |
Scientific career | |
Fields | botanist; cytologist |
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