Original: He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance , and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns .
Simplified: Bateson was the first to suggest the word '' genetics '' to describe the study of inheritance , in a letter to Adam Sedgwick , dated April 18 , 1905 .