Question

The term linkage was coined by:

• A. de Vries
• B. Morgan
• C. Mccarty
• D. Avery

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Morgan

• The term "linkage" was coined by Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910.

• He introduced the concept after his experiments with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which showed that certain genes on the same chromosome are inherited together more often than would be expected by chance.