The Geneticist Who Knew Every Stalk by Heart
In the 1940s, geneticist Barbara McClintock spent her days walking the cornfields at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. While other scientists studied populations...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18.
In the 1940s, geneticist Barbara McClintock spent her days walking the cornfields at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. While other scientists studied populations and averages, McClintock studied individuals. She knew each corn plant personally — its particular pattern of colored kernels, its rate of growth, its subtle variations in leaf shape. Colleagues thought her methods strange, even unscientific.…
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