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Memory Pin for Barbara McClintock

THE SOIL FACTORY (US) 2021

Barbara McClintock's colleagues and transcriptions of interviews with the scientist document and describe her humorous nature. An edition of (laughter) pins commemorates McClintock's laughter and calls for more humor in science. Barbara McClintock's discovery of genetic transposition or "jumping genes", i.e. pieces of genetic material that rearrange themselves in maize seedlings, is the key to how individual organisms regulate their development and growth.

Year: 2021
Edition: 250
Available at Soil Factory, Ithaca, USA