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Question
Answer the following question.
Write the basis on which Alfred Sturtevant explained gene mapping.
Solution
Alfred Sturtevant was a student of Morgan. He discovered the position of linked genes on a chromosome by calculating their frequency of genetic recombination by the process of gene mapping.
This method of generating a linkage map was extensively used during the Human Genome Project.
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