Principles Of Inheritance And Variation Question 4
Question: Frequency of recombination between gene pairs on same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes to map their position on chromosome, was used for the first time by
(1) Thomas Hunt Morgan
(2) Sutton and Boveri
(3) Alfred Sturtevant
(4) Henking
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Answer: (3) Alfred Sturtevant
Explaination-
Alfred Sturtevant explained, the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome is a measure of the distance between the genes. The distance between the genes is inversely proportional to the frequency of recombination
