Talk:Alfred Sturtevant

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I remember reading about a unit called a "sturt", named for Sturtevant, which is similar to a morgan but measures distances in embryos. It was in a Scientific American article about fruit flies, and they found the point where a gene is expressed by making a two-cell embryo with the gene and a marker gene expressed in one cell, letting it grow, and finding the probability that only one of the two genes is expressed in the fly. Can someone else verify this? -phma 01:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Found one: http://www.uni-kl.de/FB-Biologie/AG-Cullum/Teaching/Files/Gen1Lec3.pdf -phma 00:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC)