John Bretland Farmer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Bretland Farmer

British botanist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1865

Place of Birth: Atherstone, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1944

Profession: journalist, botanist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist.
He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity.
Farmer and J.
E.
S.
Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905.