Reginald Punnett

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Reginald Punnett was a British geneticist best known for developing the Punnett square, a fundamental tool for predicting the outcome of genetic crosses.

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Reginald Crundall Punnett 1
Reginald Punnett canonical 1

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instanceOf academic
biologist
geneticist
human
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
surface form: Fellow of the Royal Society
citizenship United Kingdom
coFounded Journal of Genetics
coFounderWith William Bateson
countryOfBirth United Kingdom
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1875-06-20
dateOfDeath 1967-01-03
developed Punnett
surface form: Punnett square
educatedAt Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
era 20th-century biology
familyName Punnett
fieldOfWork biology
genetics
fullName Reginald Punnett self-linksurface differs
surface form: Reginald Crundall Punnett
gender male
givenName Reginald
hasOccupation author
geneticist
university teacher
influenced teaching of genetics
knownFor Mendel's laws
surface form: Mendelian genetics

Punnett
surface form: Punnett square
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
nationality British
notableConcept Punnett
surface form: Punnett square
notableWork Heredity in Poultry
Mendel’s Principles of Heredity
surface form: Mendelism

Sex-linkage and Sex-limited Inheritance
placeOfBirth Tonbridge
placeOfDeath Bilbrook
positionHeld Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge
researchSubject Mendel's laws
surface form: Mendelian inheritance

poultry genetics
sex-linked inheritance
workedWith William Bateson

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William Bateson influenced Reginald Punnett
Reginald Punnett fullName Reginald Punnett self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Reginald Crundall Punnett