Question
Explain the contribution of Alfred Sturtevant in ‘Chromosome mapping’.
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Answer
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.
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