Barbara McClintock

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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…

Barbara McClintock was a woman ahead of her time. She was heralded as the most distinguished cytogeneticist of her time, in a time where female influence in that field, or any STEM field was nearly unheard of. McClintock overcame obstacles in her academic career, and went on to produce her research on ‘jumping genes’, which a major impact that lasted for generations to come and garnered her numerous accolades and awards. Barbara McClintock was born on June 16th, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut,…

McClintock studied-the variegated colour pattern of maize kernels-involves three alleles rather than the usual two. McClintock worked with what is known as the Ac/Ds system in maize, which she discovered by conducting standard genetic breeding experiments with an unusual phenotype. Through these experiments, McClintock recognized that breakage occurred at specific sites on maize chromosomes. Indeed, the first…

later; Barbara McClintock - a cytogeneticist from the University of Cornell - proposed another main function of telomeres. While investigating the behaviour of broken chromosomes in maize plants by studying the cytology of x-rayed plants, she observed that when the breakage occurs on one end of a chromosome, fusion of the broken meiotic chromatids does occur. Such consequence result in anaphase bridge configuration termed as the breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle to ensure cell death…

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Laurel Hollow, New York, is now one of the première non-profit, biological research institutes, specializing in cancer, quantitative biology, neuroscience, and genomics. It has advanced from a school that primarily trained high school and college teachers, to a key developer in molecular genetics and biology, as well as an institution that emphasizes educating the new generation of scientists and the public. According to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…

The lights dim in the theater and moviegoers are excited to see the premier of a highly anticipated film, when suddenly a gunman walks into the theater, and opens fire on the crowd. This may seem like a scene from a horror movie, but on the night of July 20th, 2012 this scene became all too real. At the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 more. This horrifying incident changed the way people go to the movies. Security was increased at…

completely new to pretty much everyone attending. We were covering transposable elements. These were first discovered by Barbara McClintock in corn kernels. She noticed that the corn kernels were either colored, or plain- but once in a while they were spotted. Most scientists at the time assumed that the chromosome for color had been repressed or had broken off. However, Dr. McClintock felt that if the chromosome had been repressed or had broken off, then it couldn’t make spotted kernels. Thus,…