Barbara McClintock, the American geneticist, won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for which of the following non-Mendelian discoveries? DNA-based transposons in bacteria the Alu sequence in humans

Barbara McClintock, the American geneticist, won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for which of the following non-Mendelian discoveries? DNA-based transposons in bacteria the Alu sequence in humans

Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter15: Genomes And Genomics

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. Barbara McClintock, the American geneticist, won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for which of the following non-Mendelian discoveries?

DNA-based transposons in bacteria
the Alu sequence in humans
the LINE-1 element in humans
jumping genes in corn
retrotransposons in fruit flies

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