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{{Infobox person|name=Thomas Hunt Morgan|image_size=200|image=Thomas Hunt Morgan.png|birth_date=September 25, 1866|birth_place=Lexington, [[Kentucky]], [[United States of America|United States]]|death_place=Pasadena, [[California]], United States|death_date=December 4, 1945|nationality=Statesian}}
{{Infobox person|name=Thomas Hunt Morgan|image_size=200|image=Thomas Hunt Morgan.png|birth_date=September 25, 1866|birth_place=Lexington, [[Kentucky]], [[United States of America|United States]]|death_place=Pasadena, [[California]], United States|death_date=December 4, 1945|nationality=Statesian}}


'''Thomas Hunt Morgan''' (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was a Statesian geneticist who discovered the role of chromosomes in inheritance. He experimented on fruit flies after [[Gregor Mendel]]'s work was rediscovered around 1900. Like [[August Weismann]], he believed that genes could only change through random mutations. This claim was not park of Mendel or [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s original theories.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Lalkar]]|title=Lysenko’s great contribution to the understanding of heredity|date=2010|url=http://www.lalkar.org/article/295/lysenkosgreat-contribution-to-the-understandingof-heredity|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421042337/http://www.lalkar.org/article/295/lysenkosgreat-contribution-to-the-understandingof-heredity|archive-date=2023-04-21}}</ref>
'''Thomas Hunt Morgan''' (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was a Statesian geneticist who discovered the role of chromosomes in inheritance. He experimented on fruit flies after [[Gregor Mendel]]'s work was rediscovered around 1900. Like [[August Weismann]], he believed that genes could only change through random mutations. This claim was not part of Mendel or [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s original theories.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Lalkar]]|title=Lysenko’s great contribution to the understanding of heredity|date=2010|url=http://www.lalkar.org/article/295/lysenkosgreat-contribution-to-the-understandingof-heredity|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421042337/http://www.lalkar.org/article/295/lysenkosgreat-contribution-to-the-understandingof-heredity|archive-date=2023-04-21}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
BornSeptember 25, 1866
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
DiedDecember 4, 1945
Pasadena, California, United States
NationalityStatesian


Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was a Statesian geneticist who discovered the role of chromosomes in inheritance. He experimented on fruit flies after Gregor Mendel's work was rediscovered around 1900. Like August Weismann, he believed that genes could only change through random mutations. This claim was not part of Mendel or Darwin's original theories.[1]

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