Barbara Mcclintock's 'Mobile Genetic Elements'

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“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then no body can turn you off… And no matter what they say.”
“It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.” [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barbara_mcclintock.html] Barbara McClintock wrote these quotes, above. Barbara was the American scientist, who discovered “Mobile Genetic Elements” or can be called “Jumping Genes”. Her father was a physician, as like as her father, Barbara took the great pleasure and her independence mind of science as a child. Barbara real name was Eleanor McClintock. She was the first woman, who discovered the
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To understand the meaning of this quote, we can do an experiment about puzzle as like as Mr. Harris already let us did. Draw a square into a blank paper, and then cut the square into many pieces. Try to connect those pieces into a square. It’s easy right! After that, let’s move into next level. There will be a tiny small square on your table, next to those pieces. Now try to connect the small square and those pieces into a big square. Of course, it’s not easy as like our first experiment. Those pieces of paper show how confused and complemented science was. From those pieces of paper cut from a square, we can formed into many different shaped. Science is not a true or false, yes or no question but science as like as the collective learning. Collective learning is the ability to learn and transfer knowledge to other. Pass it on from the past to now. Make improvement and be more creative to create our life’s needs. This quote also related to Barbara McClintock because before her experiment publishes, there was many scientists did an experiment about genetics but they wasn’t know that “Genes are responsible for switching and sharing the same physical traits.” Until Barbara published her theory as an experiment result, and was prove by the “Hershey-Chase experiment” by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase in 1952. An experiment had proved to people, DNA was the hereditary material, which they’ve shared same type of blood, hair’s color affect from parents, etc. Based on those two experiments, many scientists have discovered more type of genetics in animals, plants and

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