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The term ''linkage'' was coined by...

The term ''linkage'' was coined by

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TH Morgan

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T Boveri

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G Mendel

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W Sutton

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The term linkage was coined by TH Morgan. He carried out several dihybrid crosses in Drosophila to study genes that were sex-linked. He described the physical association of genes on a chromosome.
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