Barbara mcclintock

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Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist who proposed in 1930 that genes can travel on or between chromosomes. Her theory of transposition, commonly called "jumping genes", explained that chromosomes can break and recombine themselves, a process of genetic transformation known as crossing over. In 1983 she became the first woman to win an un-shared Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 was awarded to Barbara McClintock "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"

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Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances

Through meticulous crossbreeding, she showed that DNA is far more complicated than scientists originally thought

An American cytogeneticist who discovered centromeres, telomeres, and transposons for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983, becoming the only woman to win it…

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 was how...

Lived 1902 - 1992. Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics. She demonstrated the phenomenon of chromosomal crossover, which increases genetic variation in species. She also discovered transposition - genes moving about within chromosomes - often described as jumping genes, and showed that genes are responsible for switching the physical traits of