Goldschmidt
/ˈɡəʊldˌʃmɪt/
noun
1.
Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
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