OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
GENETICS
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Question
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Thomas Hunt Morgan worked with which organisms to show that Mendel’s principles applied to living things other than plants.
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pea plants
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zebras
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fruit flies
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bearded dragons
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues worked with fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster) for their experiment on linkage . He did various experiments on Drosophila melanogaster.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Hunt Morgan used the fly to prove the chromosomal theory of inheritance showing that the white gene resided on the X chromosome, a finding for which he received a thoroughly deserved Nobel Prize [2].
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