Sex-linked traits were first described by TH Morgan in fruit fly eyes 40-50 years after Mendel published his pea experiments. It was the first published finding that specifically linked a gene to a chromosome, providing considerable evidence for the chromosome theory of inheritance which was still hotly debated at the time.
Sex-linked traits were first described by TH Morgan in fruit fly eyes 40-50 years after Mendel published his pea experiments. It was the first published finding that specifically linked a gene to a chromosome, providing considerable evidence for the chromosome theory of inheritance which was still hotly debated at the time.