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Walter Sutton

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Gender Male
Death108 years ago
Date of birth April 5,1877
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Utica
New York
United States
Date of died November 10,1916
DiedKansas City
Kansas
United States
Known forBoveri–Sutton chromosome theory
Surgery
ParentsWilliam Bell Sutton
Agnes Black Sutton
Academic advisor Edmund Beecher Wilson
Job Physician
Geneticist
Education University of Kansas
Columbia University
BooksAmerican Free Verse: The Modern Revolution in Poetry
Modern American criticism
Modern Criticism Theory and Practice
Plato to Alexander Pope
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Walter Sutton Life story


Walter Stanborough Sutton was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms. This is now known as the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory.

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