Text: Biology, 7th ed., by Solomon, Berg and Martin (2005)

Thomas Hunt Morgan has influenced the study of biology immensely in the last 100 years. His rather arbitrary selection of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as his experimental subject determined the course of many undergraduate biology labs to come. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity."  The unit of distance between genes is named for him. More about Thomas Morgan.

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