Though American botanist Barbara McClintock conducted the research that led to her discovery of mobile genetic elements in the 1940s, it was not until decades later that scientists began to take ...

Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work in genetics began just two decades after biologists rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity in 1900. After refining chromosome-staining techniques, ...

As A factor of unknown location (at least when McClintock was conducting her research) that impacts the expression of Ds. Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposable elements in Zea mays ...