Multiple choice

Who discovered the principle of linkage?

  1. Bateson and Punnet

  2. Watson and Crick

  3. Carl Linnaeus

  4. Lavoisier
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Explanation

The principle of linkage was discovered by Bateson and Punnet in 1906 in the sweat pea, plant, Lathyrus odoratus. However, linkage, as a concept was put forth by Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910, based on his experiment on Drosophila melanogaster.

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