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Who is credited with the chromosome theory of inheritance?
Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri
What did Boveri find in his study of sea urchins?
He found that all the chromosomes had to be present for proper embryonic development to take place.
What is the chromosome theory of inheritance?
It identifies chromosomes as the carriers of genetic material and explains the mechanism underlying the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
What did Sutton's work with grasshoppers show?
It showed that chromosomes occur in matched pairs of maternal and paternal chromosomes which separate during meiosis.
What did E.B. Wilson name the chromosome theory of inheritance?
Sutton-Boveri Theory
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