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Count Imre Festetics de Tolna, Germanized as Emmerich Festetics, (2 October 1764 - 1 April 1847) was a Hungarian noble, sheep breeder, and pioneer geneticist. He is known for coining the term "genetics". In 1817 he exhibited a sheep breed called Mimush that he had developed through inbreeding and selection for specific characters. In 1819 he introduced the phrases künstliche Zuchtwahl (or artificial selection) and "die genetischen Gesetze der Natur" (the genetic

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