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Barbara McClintock and the discovery of jumping genes

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Barbara McClintock’s life shows us how important it is to nurture original and unconventional thinking in science if we are to get out of the rut of ordinariness. After a long period of relative neglect, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983 for her work on genetic instability (transposition).

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  • Evelyn Fox Keller.A feeling for an organism, The life and work of Barbara McClintock. W H Freeman & Company. New York, 1983.

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  1. Developmental Biology and Genetics Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, 560012, Bangalore, India

    Vidyanand Nanjundiah

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Nanjundiah, V. Barbara McClintock and the discovery of jumping genes. Reson 1, 56–62 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02839098

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