Hubert Dana Goodale

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Hubert Dana Goodale was an American poultry and cattle geneticist and breeder. He worked at Mount Hope Farm in Williamston, Massachusetts where he worked on applied genetics and breeding for the poultry and dairy industry. He developed the idea of index breeding for identifying sires in breeding programs. In 1932 he was among the first to use the term "genetic engineering" at the Congress of Genetics in New York.