One day in 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan peered through a hand lens at a male fruit fly, and he noticed it didn't look right. Instead of having the normally brilliant red eyes of the wild-type fruit ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American biologist and zoologist. He joined the board of the Eugenics Record Office when it was founded in 1904. But after a decade of crossing thousands of mutant fruit ...

Yet Thomas Hunt Morgan did exactly this and in the process made gene mapping possible. Aa Aa Aa In 1911, while studying the chromosome theory of heredity, biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan had a major ...

In fact, it was not until the later work of geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan that this coupling, or linkage, could be fully explained. Morgan Finds Answers in the White-Eyed Fly.

PROF. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN, who died on December 4 at the age of seventy-seven years, played a leading part in establishing the science of genetics in an impregnable position. To few is given the ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one ...

However, it wasn't until the work of Thomas Hunt Morgan in the early twentieth century that researchers were finally able to directly link the inheritance of genetic traits to the behavior of ...

A few weeks ago, the Lexington History Museum opened inside the Thomas Hunt Morgan house to the public. The historic building is named in honor of Kentucky’s first Nobel Prize winner, “the ...