Thomas hunt morgan autobiography definition

(b. Lexington, Ken-tucky, 25 September 1866; d. Pasadena, California, 4 December 1945)

embryology, genetics.

Although known best for his studies in heredity with the small vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster (often called fruit fly), Morgan contributed significantly to descriptive and experimental embryology, cytology, and, to a lesser extent, evolutionary theory.

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In recog-nition of his work in establishing the chromosome theory of heredity (the idea that genes are located in a linear array on chromosomes), Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for 1933.

The son of Charlton Hunt Morgan and the former Ellen Key Howard, Morgan came from two prominent family lines.

His father had been American consul at Messina, Sicily, in the early 1860’s and had given assistance to Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Red Shirts. John Hunt Morgan, Charlton’s brother, was a colonel and later general in the Confederate Army and leader of his own guerrilla b