Q. Pick out the person associated with the coining of the term ‘gene’:
Answer: Johannsen
Notes: Though Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) first suggested existence of discrete inheritable units, he did not use the term gene. Gene was coined in 1909 by Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen to describe the fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity. The related word genetics was first used by William Bateson in 1905.