Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton

Walter Stanborough Sutton (April 5, 1877 - November 10, 1916) 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.

Read more about Walter Sutton:  Early Life, University of Kansas, Columbia University, Career

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