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Thomas Hunt Morgan | |
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| Born | September 25, 1866 Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| Died | December 4, 1945 Pasadena, California, United States |
| 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 part of Mendel or Darwin's original theories.[1]
References
- ↑ "Lysenko’s great contribution to the understanding of heredity" (2010). Lalkar. Archived from the original on 2023-04-21.