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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Training And Early Interests, A Lucky Discovery, Linkage And Chromosome Mapping, Morgan's Legacy



Geneticist 1866-1945

Thomas Hunt Morgan proved the validity of the chromosomal theory of heredity and led a research group whose insights into the physical nature of inheritance propelled genetics into the center of biology in the twentieth century.

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