John Bretland Farmer
Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS 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.
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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