According to Wikipedia, Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. One of those ideas was the notion of genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome to physical traits. She demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
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The Production of Homozygous Deficient Tissues with Mutant Characteristics by Means of the Aberrant Mitotic Behavior of Ring-Shaped Chromosomes. (1938) (449)
Topographical relations between elements of control systems in maize (1962) (94)
Further Studies of Gene-Control Systems in Maize (1963) (87)
Controlled mutation in maize (1955) (83)
Components of action of the regulators Spm and Ac (1965) (79)
Genetic and cytological studies of maize (1959) (75)
Chromosome constitution of races of maize. Its significance in the interpretation of relationships between races and varieties in the Americas (1981) (71)
The Cytological Identification of the Chromosome Associated with the R-G Linkage Group in ZEA MAYS. (1931) (68)
A METHOD FOR MAKING ACETO-CARMIN SMEARS (1997) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to W. Ronnie Coffman (1990) (0)
Review of Previous Discussions (1954) (0)
Degree of spread of mutation along the chromosome induced by Ds (1956) (0)
Further study of the a1m-1 Spm system (1956) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to David H. Timothy (1959) (0)
Gene-Control Mechanisms in Higher Organisms. Part II (1964) (0)
Expanding Concepts in Genetics (1971) (0)
Polypoidy in Zea mays L. (0)
Six Plants Examined in Each Race (1963) (0)
:.HE PRODUCTION OF HOMOZYGOUS DEFICIENT TISSUES ,’ WITH MUTAST CHARACTERISTICS BY ME-AX’S OF i \ THE ABERRANT MITOTIC BEHAVIOR OF RING-SHAPED CHROMOSOIMES* (2001) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Charles R. Burnham (1931) (0)
The Origin and Behavior of c-m2; The Origin and Behavior of wx-m1 (1954) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Oliver E. Nelson, Jr. (1970) (0)
Conclusions on c-m1; Outline of bz-m1; Begin c-m2 (1954) (0)
Nobel Prize Banquet (1983) (0)
MUTABLE LOCI IN MAIZE t, (2001) (0)
[Unpublished index of corn specimens] (section 4, image 4) (1971) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Elizabeth H. Blackburn (1983) (0)
Continuation of Discussion of wx-m1; The Induction of Mutability at Selected Loci; The States of a1-m3 (1954) (0)
Continuation of Transposition of Ac; and its Relation to Somatic Sectoring and to Controls of Mutation of Mutable Genes (1954) (0)
Continuation of Transposition of Ds; Locations of Ds in Short Arm of Chromosome 9. The Missing Regions; Why. The States of Ds (1954) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Almiro Blumenschein (1966) (0)
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