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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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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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