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McClintock
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Mc·Clin·tock (mə-klĭnˈtək, -tŏkˌ), Barbara 1902-1992.
American genetic botanist. She won a 1983 Nobel Prize for discovering that genes are mobile within the chromosomes of a plant cell.
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