heredity

[lava143]

scientist who studies heredity?

[Quizmonster]

Geneticist would fit.

[alijangra]

geneologist

[brachiopod]

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?

[Quizmonster]

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.

[alijangra]

So the correct answer is what quizmonster or do you just like picking faults with other peoples answers?

[Quizmonster]

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.

[alijangra]

Quizmonster, good for you, you know the answer. If you feel the need to trawl other answers for minor spelling mistakes then carry on.

[Quizmonster]

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?

[purplelily]

I reckon QM won that one.