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gene (n.)
1911, from German
Gen
, coined 1905 by Danish scientist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927), from Greek
genea
"generation, race," from PIE root
*gene-
(see
genus
). De Vries had earlier called them
pangenes
.
Gene pool
is attested from 1946.
