A gene was not conflated with a DNA locus until the 1960s. Classical genetics treated 'gene' as any trait that could be stably isolated and transmitted in breed

A gene was not conflated with a DNA locus until the 1960s. Classical genetics treated 'gene' as any trait that could be stably isolated and transmitted in breeding experiments. I agree that a lot of the broken ideas are going to be revised, but in many cases they're going to be revised back to the original meaning before someone better at marketing than science forced a broken meaning on it.