The tale of much of Barbara ... the graduate genetics course at Cornell. It was here that she became interested in the new field of cytogenetics, specifically of maize or corn.

Like Gregor Mendel before her, Barbara McClintock quietly ... of her major contributions to genetics by studying the chromosomes of maize, also known as Indian corn. She and graduate student ...

Thanks to these and other valuable contributions to the field, Barbara McClintock is rightly viewed as one of the pioneering figures in modern genetics.