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THE quarter-century of the King's reign has seen many striking advances in cytology, and particularly in our knowledge of the structure of the nucleus and its chromosomes. During the decade ending in 1910, the general theory of ‘individuality’ of the chromosomes had been established by the work of Boveri and others, the sex chromosomes had been discovered by McClung, and their general relation to sex determined, chiefly by the work of Wilson and his school. These remarkable beginnings definitely linked cytology with genetics and added strength to the view, already accepted in many quarters, that the chromosome reduction in meiosis furnished the physical basis for Mendelian segregation.
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GATES, R. Nuclear Structure and Chromosomes. Nature 135, 729–732 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135729a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135729a0