The Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory, also called the chromosome theory of inheritance, is a foundational theory of genetics proposed in 1902 by Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri that identifies chromosomes as the physical carriers of hereditary material. It explains the mechanism behind Mendel's laws of inheritance by identifying chromosomes with the paired hereditary factors those laws require, and holds that chromosomes are linear structures carrying genes at specific locations called loci. Because chromosomes appear in every dividing cell and are passed from one generation to the next, the theory treats them as the physical basis of all genetic inheritance, with random mutation over time altering the DNA sequence of individual genes.
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The chromosome theory of inheritance is credited to papers by Walter Sutton in 1902 and 1903
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The Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory (also known as the chromosome theory of inheritance or the Sutton-Boveri theory) is a fundamental unifying theory of genetics which identifies chromosomes as the carriers of genetic material.
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