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NEET · Biology · STD 12 - 4. principal of inheritance and variation

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. A Henking
  2. B Thomas Hunt Morgan
  3. C Sutton and Boveri
  4. D Alfred Sturtevant
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(D) Alfred Sturtevant

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Alfred Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes and 'mapped' their position on the chromosome. Sutton and Boveri proposed chromosomal theory of inheritance. Henking discovered \(X-\)chromosome.