4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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Frequency of recombination between gene pairs on same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes to map their position on chromosome, was used for the first time by

A

Henking

B

Thomas Hunt Morgan

C

Sutton and Boveri

D

Alfred Sturtevant

(NEET-2023)

Solution

Alfred Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes and 'mapped' their position on the chromosome. Sutton and Boveri proposed chromosomal theory of inheritance.

Henking discovered $X-$chromosome.

Thomas Hunt Morgan proved chromosomal theory of inheritance and proposed the concept of linkage.

Standard 12
Biology

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