Barbara McClintock and the discovery of jumping genes
By S. Ravindran. 2012
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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science
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- Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls (2014, background): “Barbara McClintock’s discovery of transposable genes, though much later awarded the Nobel prize, was initially disbelieved and disregarded partly because the organism she used, maize, was not a model organism at the time (Pray and Zhaurova, 2008).”