The proposal that chromosomes carried the factors of Mendelian inheritance was initially controversial, but in 1913 it gained strong support when Eleanor Carothers documented definitive evidence of independent assortment of chromosomes in a species of grasshopper.
A proposta de que os cromosomas portaban os factores da herdanza mendeliana foi inicialmente controvertida, pero en 1913 gañou apoios cando Eleanor Carothers documentou probas definitivas da segregación independente dos cromosomas nunha especie de saltón.