Chromosome theory of inheritance was proposed by

Watson and Crick

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Sutton and Boveri

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Morgan and Mendel

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Hershey and Chase

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Sutton and Boveri

Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri proposed the chromosome theory of inheritance (i.e, chromosomes are physical basis of heredity) after observing that the behaviour of chromosomes was parallel to the behaviour of genes predicted by Mendel.

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