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Barbara McClintock is famous for her work on

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Wheat

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Rice

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Maize

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Pisum

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c) Mc Clintock discovered jumping genes (Transposons, 1940) in maize and she named them as controlling elements or mobile genetic elements in maize. For this work, she was awarded Nobel prize in (1983).
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