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chromosome map
Also known as: genetic map, linkage map
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contribution by Bridges
- In Calvin Blackman Bridges
…to observable changes in its chromosomes. These experiments led to the construction of “gene maps” and proved the chromosome theory of heredity. Bridges, with Morgan and Alfred Henry Sturtevant, published these results in 1925. That same year he published “Sex in Relation to Chromosomes and Genes,” demonstrating that sex in…
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principles of genetics
- In heredity: Simple linkage
In other words, the linkage maps of the chromosomes are really summaries of many statistical observations on the outcomes of hybridization experiments. In principle at least, such maps could be prepared even if the chromosomes, not to speak of the chiasmata at meiosis, were unknown. But an interesting and relevant…
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