By J. Heather Cullen
Provides the lifestyles and profession of the geneticist who in 1983 was once presented the Nobel Prize for her examine of maize cells.
Read Online or Download Barbara McClintock: Geneticist (Women in Science) PDF
Best specific groups books
A voyage into the area of deafness marked via brilliance in analogies. -- Library JournalProvides a delicate, cross-cultural viewpoint. -- BooklistRaija Nieminen, a deaf girl from Finland, were best a really complete lifestyles as either a librarian and mom of 2 kids. Then her husband Jukka received an exhilarating new activity designing the harbor within the Caribbean Island of St.
You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
Toes, bras, autopsies, hair—Peggy Shinner takes a good, unflinching examine them all in you're feeling So Mortal, a set of searing and witty essays in regards to the physique: her personal physique, girl and Jewish; these of her mom and dad, the our bodies she got here from; and the collective physique, with all its historic, social, and political implications.
In My Father s home is the tale of Corrie s lifestyles along with her mom, father, and the remainder of her kin earlier than they begun hiding Jewish humans of their domestic. This e-book is a testomony to how God ready one relatives via a father s faithfulness to his Savior and the note of God for the main sacrificial provider a family members may possibly do.
Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era
Curiosity in revolutionary schooling and feminist pedagogy has received an important following in present academic reform circles. Founding moms and Others examines the feminine founders of revolutionary colleges and different girl academic leaders within the early 20th century and their faculties or academic activities.
- Coping with Blindness: Personal Tales of Blindness Rehabilitation
- Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
- Blakwidow: My First Year as a Professional Wrestler
- Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal advocate for women
- Truth, Justice, and the American Whore
- Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools, Under the Auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society
Additional resources for Barbara McClintock: Geneticist (Women in Science)
Sample text
PASSION FOR THE STUDY OF MAIZE McClintock decided to focus her graduate research on the cytology and the genetics of maize—how its cells are formed and structured, how they function, and how they pass on their genes. There was a professor there, Rollins Emerson, who was then a leader in the field, which meant she had a nourishing environment in which to study. Maize is a common form of corn, often called “Indian corn”—though in fact the two words, one from Europe and one from the Taino people of San Salvador, both mean “source of life” and really refer to the same plant.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN GERMANY In 1933, McClintock was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship that took her to Germany. Morgan, Emerson, and Stadler recommended McClintock for this prestigious award, and she greatly appreciated the opportunity, but her time in Germany 59 60 BARBARA MCCLINTOCK Curt Stern was a prominent geneticist in Germany; he studied Drosophila, or fruit flies, instead of maize. McClintock had traveled to Germany in 1933 to meet Stern, but by then he had already fled the country because he was Jewish and subject to Nazi persecution.
In the spring of 1900, three botanists, Hugo de Vries of Holland, Karl Correns of Germany, and Erich von Tschermak of Austria, reported independent verifications of Mendel’s work which amounted to a rediscovery of his work. They all, knowing nothing of Mendel’s work, came to the same results through their own independent experiments. Early Work at Cornell: 1918 –1927 Punnett squares (named for the British geneticist Reginald Punnett) show the chances that certain genetic combinations will result from the crossing (mating) of certain others.