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# Alfred Sturtevant

(1891–1970)   Botanist

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Alfred Sturtevant was a botanist.

## Quick Facts About Alfred Sturtevant

Born November 21, 1891

Died April 5, 1970

Profession Botanist

## About Alfred Sturtevant

American biologist (1891–1970)... \| Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced

##  Quotes by Alfred Sturtevant

> [There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-sturtevant/there-is-a-reference-in-aristotle-to-a-gnat-produced-by-larvae/)

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