Here I present: Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), “Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge” NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE, 8 December 1983. Barbara McClintock, was a pioneering plant geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983; and is best known for her discovery of transposable genetic elements’ in corn (Zea mays).
Here I presented: Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), “Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge” NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE, 8 December 1983.
Barbara McClintock, studied corn (Zea mays) cytogenetics of maize, making discoveries so far beyond the understanding of the time that other scientists essentially ignored her work for more than a decade. But she persisted, trusting herself and the evidence under her microscope.
The ten (10) chromosomes of corn (Zea mays) are shown BELOW.
