As McClintock discovered, the unstable mutation Emerson puzzled over was actually a four-gene system, as outlined in Table 1. C Recessive allele on the short arm of chromosome 9 that leads to ...

Thus, in her experiments, McClintock observed several fundamental properties of chromosome biology; specifically, she noticed that cells do not tolerate the presence of unprotected chromosome ends ...

Human chromosomes, long strands of DNA by Steffen Dietzel CC BY-SA 3.0 McClintock was born on June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. From age three until beginning school, she lived with ...

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, ...

McClintock experimented with variation in ... according to where their ever-changing position was on the corn's chromosomes. Whichever genes became the genetic neighbors of these controlling ...

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Barbara McClintock pioneered the work revealing that TEs play an important role in controlling gene expression, and for this discovery, she was awarded a Nobel prize in 1983. Today, it is well ...