Question

Who coined the term alleles?

Answer 1

He was the first person to use the term genetics explaining the heredity.

Complete answer: Alleles are the contrasting pair of characters.
It is also a part of the gene also called allelomorph.
1. It occurs alternatively at a given site (locus).
2. William Bateson was an English biologist. He was the first person to use the term genetics as the word for the study of heredity.
3. Bateson along with Edith Saunders coined the term allelomorph to explain the contrasting pair of characters. The term allelomorph was then later shortened to allele.
4. The person who coined the term alleles was William Bateson

Additional information: 1. William Bateson was the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel. He systematically studied the structural variation displayed by the living organisms using the mechanism of biological evolution as the basis.
2. He was strongly influenced by both Charles Darwin and Francis Galton and their works. Bateson is the co-discoverer of genetic linkage along with Reginald Punnett and Edith Saunders. Bateson along with Punnett founded the Journal of Genetics in the year 1910.
3. Bateson also coined the term epistasis, to describe the genetic interaction between two independent loci.
4. Humans have two alleles at the same loci.
5. The genotype of a specific gene is represented by an allele.
6. If the alleles are identical, the genotype is described as homozygous and if the two alleles are different, the genotype of it will be described as heterozygous.

Note: Alleles are a pair of contrasting characters. William Bateson along with Edith Saunders coined the term alleles.