Today on Google’s home page is what looks like a scientist looking through a microscope at XY chromosomes. It is Nettie Stevens 155th birthday, she discovered the sex chromosomes, XY.
She was born on July 7, 1861 in Vermont and passed at the age of 50 from cancer on May 4, 1912.
She was one of the early American geneticist and made major strides in that field.
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