Q.

The frequency of recombination between gene present on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes was explained by      [2019]

1 Sutton Boveri  
2 T.H. Morgan  
3 Gregor J. Mendel  
4 Alfred Sturtevant  

Ans.

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T.H. Morgan coined the term linkage to describe the physical association of genes on chromosome and term recombination to describe the generation of non-parental gene combinations. Alfred Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes.