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Frequency of recombination between gene pairs on same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes to map their position on chromosome, was used for the first time by:

A

Henking

B

Thomas Hunt Morgan

C

Sutton and Boveri

D

Alfred Sturtevant

Step-by-Step Solution

, Alfred Sturtevant (a student of Thomas Hunt Morgan) 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 .

  • Henking discovered the 'X body' (X-chromosome) in insects .
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan experimentally verified the chromosomal theory of inheritance and coined the terms linkage and recombination .
  • Sutton and Boveri proposed the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance .
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