Who was the first scientist to introduce the term 'gene'?

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The term 'gene' was coined by Wilhelm Johannsen to describe the fundamental units of heredity. Although Mendel discovered the principles of inheritance, he did not use the term 'gene'. Lamarck and Cuvier contributed to evolutionary biology but did not define this term.

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