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Walter Sutton (left) and Theodor Boveri (right) independently developed different parts of the chromosome theory of inheritance in 1902.. The Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory (also known as the chromosome theory of inheritance or the Sutton–Boveri theory) is a fundamental unifying theory of genetics which identifies chromosomes as the carriers of genetic material.
Walter Stanborough Sutton (April 5, 1877 – November 10, 1916) was an American geneticist and biologist whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms. This is now known as the Boveri–Sutton chromosome ...
Theodor Heinrich Boveri (12 October 1862 – 15 October 1915) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. [1] He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer , and for describing chromatin diminution in nematodes . [ 2 ]
Sutton's work with grasshoppers showed that chromosomes occur in matched pairs of maternal and paternal chromosomes which separate during meiosis. [7] He concluded that this could be "the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity." [8] 1905: William Bateson coins the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick [9] and at a meeting in ...
Wilson, who was Sutton's teacher and Boveri's friend, called this the "Sutton-Boveri Theory". Between 1902 and 1904 Theodor Heinrich Boveri (1862–1915), a German biologist, made several contributions to chromosome theory in a series of papers, finally stating in 1904 that he had seen the link between chromosomes and Mendel's results in 1902 ...
Darwin's own theory of heredity, pangenesis, did not meet with any large degree of acceptance. [17] [18] A more mathematical version of pangenesis, one which dropped much of Darwin's Lamarckian holdovers, was developed as the "biometrical" school of heredity by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton. [19]
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