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Question 9: Briefly mention the contribution of T.H. Morgan in genetics.

Class 12 - Biology - Principles of Inheritance and Variation Page 94

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morgan is known as father os experiment genetics.he performed experimemtal genetics on drosophila and proposed various concepts like linkage , sex linkage , crossing over

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• Briefly mention the contribution of T.H. Morgan in genetics.

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➦Thomas Hunt Morgan put forth chromosome theory of linkage from this work on fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).

➦He established the principle of linkage, discovered sex linkage and technique of chromosomal mapping.

➦ He wrote a book 'Theory of Gene' and was awarded Nobel Prize in 1933.