Early in the twentieth century, Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri noted that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation. They proposed that genes are carried on chromosomes, which led to the

basis of the ________.

A) Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
B) First Law of Thermodynamics
C) Chromosomal Maintenance Theory
D) Law of Segregation
E) Law of Independent Assortment


Answer: A

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