As A factor of unknown location (at least when McClintock was conducting her research) that impacts the expression of Ds. Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays ...

The tale of much of Barbara McClintock’s life is that of the scientist working long hours with a microscope seeking to solve mysteries. The mystery she spent most of her career trying to solve ...

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work in genetics began just two decades after biologists rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity in 1900. After refining chromosome-staining techniques, ...

Though American botanist Barbara McClintock conducted the research that led to her discovery of mobile genetic elements in the 1940s, it was not until decades later that scientists began to take ...

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