Question

In what year did Walter Sutton publish the formal paper "The Chromosomes in Heredity" that linked Mendel's laws to chromosome behaviour?

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• 1910

• 1902

• 1903

• 1901

Answer 1

Walter Sutton published his formal paper "The Chromosomes in Heredity" in 1903, providing a comprehensive theoretical framework linking Mendel's laws to observable chromosome behaviour during meiosis. This publication was pivotal in establishing the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance as a unified scientific concept.