Japetus Steenstrup

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Image:Japetussteenstrup.png Japetus Steenstrup (1813 - 1897) was a Danish zoologist and biologist.

He was a professor for zoology at the University of Copenhagen. He worked on a great many of subjects, including cephalopods, but also in genetics, where he discovered the principle of the alternation of generations in some parasitic worms in 1842.

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