The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity is a seminal work in the field of genetics, written by Thomas Hunt Morgan and first published in 1915. The book outlines the principles of Mendelian genetics, which were first discovered by Gregor Mendel in the 19th century, and presents Morgan's own groundbreaking research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.Morgan's research on Drosophila, which he began in the early 1900s, revealed that genes are located...
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