Hermann Henking
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Who is Hermann Henking?
Hermann Henking was a cytologist who discovered the X chromosome in 1890 or 1891. The work was the result of a study in Leipzig of the testicles of the Firebug Pyrrhocoris during which Henking noticed that one chromosome did not take part in meiosis. He named this X element because its strange behaviour made him unsure whether it was genuinely a chromosome. It later became X chromosome after it was established that it was indeed a chromosome.
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