Principle of Inheritance and Variation

Question 1

Hybridisation experiments on garden pea were done by

Answer 1

Gregor Mendel

Question 2

Rediscoverers of Mendelism

Answer 2

de Vries, Correns and von Tschermak

Question 3

Chromosomal theory of inheritance was proposed by

Answer 3

Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri

Question 4

Experimental verification of chromosomal theory of inheritance (using Drosophila melanogaster) was done by

Answer 4

Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues

Question 5

Punnet square was developed by

Answer 5

British geneticist, Reginald C. Punnett

Question 6

Genetic map produced using frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes was developed by Morgan’s student

Answer 6

Alfred Sturtevant