BRIDGES, Calvin Blackman (1889 – 1938)
1889 – 1938
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1913 CE
#245.5
Non-disjunction of the sex chromosome of Drosophila.
Bridges discovered non-disjunction, failure of chromosome pairs to segregate regularly during meiosis.
1915 CE
#246
The mechanism of Mendelian heredity.
Summarizes the major early findings of Morgan’s Drosophila research group, which based its research on the rapidly reproducing small vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, often called the fruit fly. This epoch-m…