<<Don’t you find this amusing?>> -Nettie Stevens Nettie Stevens was a genetics, researcher and scientist that discovered the system to determinate the sex of a baby! When she was 35, a prestigious geneticist called Thomas Hunt noticed her talent in the...
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<<Don’t you find this amusing?>> -Nettie Stevens Nettie Stevens was a genetics, researcher and scientist that discovered the system to determinate the sex of a baby! When she was 35, a prestigious geneticist called Thomas Hunt noticed her talent in the Nettie was a pioneer! field of research, and offered her to join his She was one of the first women to team. For the following years, Nettie studied be accepted in university, and chromosomes and made amazing discoveries defenently the first to focus her about them. studies towards genetics. By the age of 39, Nettie had already published a thesis in wich she explained that chromosomes are pairs of cells, where if the egg fertilized by a sperm carrying the X chromosome would result in a female, and if it carried the Y chromosome, the result would be a male! Thanks to her work, doctors could- and still can- prevent all types of genetical malformations before the baby is even born! NETTIE STEVENS FIRST SCIENTIST TO DISCOVER THE BASES OF CRO
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