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Sowing the seeds Barbara McClintock was born in 1902 in Connecticut, USA, to a doctor father and artist mother. The family moved to New York in 1908 where McClintock attended high school before enrolling at Cornell University. A university course in 1921 opened her eyes to BOTANY AND PLANT GENETICS. She shone academically, earning a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, and her master’s degree and PhD in botany.
Who came before... Augustinian monk GreGor Mendel studied the genetics of pea plants and realized that peas passed on specific characteristics to later generations. This marked the beginning of the field of heredity genetics. 72
In the 1860s, German biologist ernst Haeckel discovered that hereditary material was located inside the nucleus of living cells. He was also the first to think of the animal kingdom as being made up of single-celled and multicellular creatures.
