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Who had proposed the chromosomal theory of the inheritance?

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The chromosomal theory of inheritance was proposed by Sutton and Boveri in 1903 which states that genes are present on chromosomes and homologous chromosomes separate during anaphase I of Meiosis I resulting in segregation of alleles of a gene controlling a particular trait.

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