Who is Barbara McClintock?
One of our a-maize-ing Nobel Laureates was featured as an answer on the @Jeopardy! Masters semi-final last night!
Like the clue says, McClintock earned her Nobel Prize for her work with transposons, or 'jumping genes'. This discovery is the very root
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