Florence Margaret Durham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFlorence Margaret Durham
British geneticist
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1869
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 25-Jun-1949
Profession: geneticist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Florence Margaret Durham
- Florence Margaret Durham (6 April 1869 – 25 June 1949) was a British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and an advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance, at a time when it was still controversial.
- She was part of an informal school of genetics at Cambridge led by her brother-in-law William Bateson.
- Her work on the heredity of coat colours in mice and canaries helped to support and extend Mendel's law of heredity.
- It is also one of the first examples of epistasis.
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