NEET 2020 · Class 12

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Experimental verification of the chromosomal theory of inheritance was done by

  1. (A)Sutton
  2. (B)Boveri
  3. (C)Morgan
  4. (D)Mendel

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Following this synthesis of ideas, experimental verification of the chromosomal theory of inheritance by Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues, led to discovering the basis for the variation that sexual reproduction produced.

Chapter
Principles of Inheritance and Variation
Section
4.3.2 Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance
Page
16
Words matched
32 of 32

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