Maze genetics research by McClintock, 1966. Specimens of cobs of maize (Zea mays) that formed part of research into plant genetics by US geneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). The variety being described here is named Milho Pontinha. McClintock worked at the Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. She is most famous for her work in the 1940s and 1950s on the genetics of maize. She discovered the moving of genes in chromosomes, by observing patterns of kernel colouration. She named these genes transposable elements. In 1983 she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on mobile genetic elements. Photographed in 1966. | |
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