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lava143 | 03:57 Thu 01st Mar 2007 | Science
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scientist who studies heredity?
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Geneticist would fit.
geneologist
Well, there's Gregor Mendel for a start, (him with the sweet-peas), Watson & Crook for their combined DNA work, Barbara McClintock and her work on the human genome......



... somehow, I get this feeling you are just after a generic term as part of a crossword / quiz answer?
A genealogist is someone who studies family histories...ie traces people's ancestors back into the past. He/she is not, however, generally-speaking a scientist, as asked for in the question.
So the correct answer is what quizmonster or do you just like picking faults with other peoples answers?
For goodness' sake! The questioner quite clearly asked for a scientist! If any given genealogist is a scientist that is pure happenstance; the vast majority aren't.
A geneticist, on the other hand, is a scientist and Chambers Dictionary defines genetics as..."the branch of biology dealing with heredity..." So what do you think is the correct answer, Alijangra?
And no, I don't like picking faults in others' answers but - when they provide obviously wrong ones - I think it only right to correct them for the questioner's benefit!
Brachiopod suggested individual scientists' names, but I agree with him/her that this looks like a quiz/crossword type of question...ie that a generic term is required.
Quizmonster, good for you, you know the answer. If you feel the need to trawl other answers for minor spelling mistakes then carry on.
As both Brachiopod and I guessed this was quite likely to be a crossword clue, it seemed appropriate to ensure that - in the unlikely event that 'genealogist' was the correct answer - it was at least correctly spelt!
Crosswords work only on the basis that spelling is accurate. But for that, I wouldn't have given a good goldarn that you'd spelt it wrongly! As I said earlier, I was trying to help the questioner, not criticise you.
The same applies to my attitude to anyone else's mis-spelling on AnswerBank. So, why don't you just admit that you've got it wrong again and leave it at that?
I reckon QM won that one.

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