Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Question:

Chromosomal theory of inheritance was given by which among the following scientist ?

Options:

Mendel .

Morgan .

Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri .

None of these .

Correct Answer:

Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri .

Explanation:

The correct answer is option (3) -Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri .

Boveri and Sutton's chromosome theory of inheritance stated that genes are found at specific locations on chromosomes, and that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis can explain Mendel’s laws of inheritance.

However, it was Thomas Hunt Morgan, who studied fruit flies and provided the first strong confirmation of the chromosome theory as proposed by Boveri and Sutton. Using fruit flies as a model organism, Thomas Hunt Morgan and his group at Columbia University showed that genes, strung on chromosomes, are the units of heredity. They showed that chromosomes carry genes, discovered genetic linkage - the fact that genes are arrayed on linear chromosomes - and described chromosome recombination.

In 1933, Morgan received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping establish the chromosome theory of inheritance.