Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly experiment in 1910 helped establish the role of chromosomes in heredity: Experiment Morgan bred fruit flies, or Drosophila, and discovered a white-eyed mutant male fly. He then bred the white-eyed fly with a red-eyed female and observed the inheritance pattern of the white-eyed trait. Results Morgan found that the white-eyed trait was only present in male offspring in the first generation, but was present in a larger number of second generation flies. Conclusions Morgan's experiment confirmed several important theories, including: The Mendelian theory of inheritance, which states that traits can be dominant or recessive The genetic factor controlling eye color was linked to the sex chromosome, and therefore the Y chromosome Chromosomes carry heredity information Morgan's work earned him a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1933. His experiment revolutionized genetics research and provided substantial evidence for the chromosome theory of inheritance. #THMorgan #ThomasHuntMorganExperiments #chromosomaltheory #chromosomesanddna #drosophila #prosureshkumar #skbioacademy