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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist whose meticulous research on *Drosophila* (fruit flies) fundamentally reshaped our understanding of heredity. His experiments demonstrated that genes are located on chromosomes and established the chromosome theory of inheritance. This work, culminating in a 1933 Nobel Prize, remains foundational to modern genetics and is particularly relevant for biologists, geneticists, and students studying evolutionary biology and molecular genetics.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist whose meticulous research on *Drosophila* (fruit flies) fundamentally reshaped our understanding of heredity. His experiments demonstrated that genes are located on chromosomes and established the chromosome theory of inheritance. This work, culminating in a 1933 Nobel Prize, remains foundational to modern genetics and is particularly relevant for biologists, geneticists, and students studying evolutionary biology and molecular genetics.
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