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3.7 describe the work of Morgan that led to the identification of sex linkage
describe the work of Morgan that led to the identification of sex linkage
- Thomas Morgan worked on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. He looked at crosses between red- eyed and white-eyed flies and found that the results could not be accounted for by simple Mendelian crosses. He showed that some genes were sex-linked because they were located on the X chromosome.
Sex-linked animations
Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Columbia Unversity, USA. (Some audio requires Quicktime plug in to be installed)