What observation by Thomas Hunt Morgan led to the understanding that genes were on chromosomes?

A. The white-eyed trait was recessive and disappeared in the F1 generation.
B. In a cross of a red-eyed female and a white-eyed male, only females in the F2 generation were white-eyed.
C. The inheritance of the white-eyed trait in fruit flies followed the same pattern of inheritance as that of the X chromosome.
D. The inheritance of the white-eyed trait in fruit flies followed the same pattern of inheritance as that of the Y chromosome.
E. Inheritance of the white-eyed trait was the same for female and male flies.


C

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