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The term 'linkage' was coined by

  • T.H. Morgan

  • T. Bover

  • G. Mendel

  • W. sutton

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T.H. Morgan

The term linkage was coined by TH Morgan. He carried out several dihybrid crosses in Drosophila to study genes that were sex-linked. He described the physical association of genes on a chromosome. 

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