McClintock, Barbara (1902–92)

American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome. Throughout her career, McClintock worked on maize cytogenetics, demonstrating many fundamental ...

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