The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγένεσις“origin”
- English todaygenetics
From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin”). Coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1905 in a letter to zoologist Adam Sedgwick, and first used publicly by Bateson at a lecture to the International Conference on Plant Hybridization in 1906.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγένεσις all →
genesis-genesis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.