Barbara McClintock, who achieved fame for discovering that genes could move within genomes, had her meticulous work ignored for nearly four decades, but eventually won the Nobel Prize. Why was her work so distrusted?
A) The work of women scientists was still not allowed to be published.
B) Geneticists did not want to lose their cherished notions of DNA stability.
C) There were too many alternative explanations for transposition.
D) She allowed no one else to duplicate her work.
E) She worked only with maize, which was considered "merely" a plant.
Many human diseases are caused by mutations in single genes
An R plasmid with resistance genes carried in a transposon
Skin color is a polygenic trait controlled by three or four genes, producing a wide range of phenoty
The progressive transfer during conjugation of various genes
Phenotype distributions with additive genes
Morgan’s test-cross analysis of genetic linkage between autosomal genes