Walter Sutton
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1877 – 1916
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Who was Walter Sutton?
Walter Stanborough Sutton was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms. This is now known as the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory.
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- Born
- Apr 5, 1877
Utica - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Kansas
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Utica
- Died
- Nov 10, 1916
Kansas City
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on July 23, 2013
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