Who was Barbara McClintock and why did her love of maize help us understand "junk DNA"?
Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogenetics who received a Noble prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983. In 1918 she enrolled in the College of Agriculture in Cornell University. After she earned her undergrad, she started working as assistance in the cytology field. In her second year of work as assistance, she identified the maize of chromosomes. After she finished her Ph.D. in 1927, she stayed as an instructor at Cornell and started working on the map of corn chromosomes. A fellow colleague George Beadle and McClintock worked the Neurospora chromosomes. Using the theory of Neurospora, Beadle and Edward Tatum developed the “one gene,
