Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in...
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known for his contributions to the field of genetics. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and H.J. Muller, Bridges was part of Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous "Fly...
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Howard Sturtevant (March 7, 1875 – July 1, 1952) was an American linguist. Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, the older brother of Alfred Sturtevant...
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classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939. Members of the subgenus Drosophila can be distinguished from...
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statistically significant sexual dimorphism in this trait. A 1940 study by Alfred Sturtevant analyzed 282 people of mostly European ancestry and observed that...
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inheritable as it does not generally affect germ cells. In 1929, Alfred Sturtevant studied mosaicism in Drosophila, a genus of fruit fly. Muller in 1930...
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the original drosophilists at Columbia University included Morgan, Alfred Sturtevant, Calvin Bridges and Hermann Joseph Muller. Drosophilists directly...
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called the morgan. Morgan's student Alfred Sturtevant developed the first genetic map in 1913. In 1915 Morgan, Sturtevant, Calvin Bridges and H. J. Muller...
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William Curtis Sturtevant (1926 Morristown, New Jersey – March 2, 2007 Rockville, Maryland) was an anthropologist and ethnologist. He is best known as...
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Group at Columbia University working alongside Thomas Hunt Morgan and Alfred Sturtevant. Their work provided crucial information on Drosophila cytogenetics...
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Sturtevant (1894–1918), American naval officer Alfred H. Sturtevant (1891–1970), American geneticist Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921), American temperance...
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sex-linked white eye mutation in fruit flies. In 1913, his student Alfred Sturtevant used the phenomenon of genetic linkage to show that genes are arranged...
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Institute of Technology (Caltech), working under the guidance of Alfred Sturtevant. In 1939, Edward B. Lewis arrived at Caltech and finished his PhD...
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Mendelian's principles of segregation and independent assortment. 1911: Alfred Sturtevant, one of Morgan's collaborators, invented the procedure of linkage...
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1921 by Alfred Sturtevant in Drosophila melanogaster. Since then, inversions have been found in a all eukaryotes. When discovered by Sturtevant, inversions...
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when white dominates, and Jeñ bu xonq when red dominates. In 1910, Alfred Sturtevant published a coat genetics study on a population of American carriage...
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1600 described species, but is estimated to have several thousands. Alfred Sturtevant divided Drosophila into a number of subgenera, including Drosophila...
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chromosome linked gene in Drosophila melanogaster (1910) and his student Alfred Sturtevant develops the first genetic map (1913). Alexander Fleming demonstrates...
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and D. sechellia. This species was discovered by the fly geneticist Alfred Sturtevant in 1919, when he noticed that the flies used in Thomas Hunt Morgan's...
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taxonomy Gregor Mendel Hugo de Vries William Bateson Thomas Hunt Morgan Alfred Sturtevant Ronald Fisher Frederick Griffith Jean Brachet Edward Lawrie Tatum...
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distance along each chromosome. Linkage maps were first developed by Alfred Sturtevant, a student of Thomas Hunt Morgan. A linkage map is a map based on...
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as Thomas Hunt Morgan, Theodosius Dobzhanski, Calvin Bridges and Alfred Sturtevant. His early work in this area included studies of the structure of...
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subgenus Sophophora of the genus Drosophila was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939. It contains the best-known drosophilid species, Drosophila...
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occupy specific locations on the chromosome. With this knowledge, Alfred Sturtevant, a member of Morgan's famous fly room, using Drosophila melanogaster...
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Wright 1967—Kenneth Stewart Cole, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, Alfred Sturtevant 1968—Horace Barker, Bernard Beryl Brodie, Detlev Bronk, Jay Laurence...
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advisor have both won Nobels, but they haven't, a list that comprises Alfred Sturtevant, Gilbert N. Lewis, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Victor Weisskopf...
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Drosophila using radium and attempting to find heritable mutations. Alfred Sturtevant later began mapping genes of Drosophila with mutations they had been...
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bearing his father's name. Sturtevant was the grandfather of geneticist Alfred Sturtevant, linguist Edgar Howard Sturtevant, and great-grandfather of biochemist...
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willistoni is a species of fruit fly. It was originally described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1916. It ranges from Florida, Mexico and Caribbean islands southwards...
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Colony. Sturtevant's great-grandfather was Julian Monson Sturtevant, the second president of Illinois College, and his uncle was Alfred Sturtevant, a noted...
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