The term ‘gene’ was coined by A)T. H. Morgan B)W. L. Johanssen C)G. Mendel D)De Vries
Option B) Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist. His most well-known research concerned so-called pure lines of the selffertile common bean. He was able to show that even in populations homozygous for all traits, i.e. without genetic variation, seed size followed a normal distribution.
