Barbara Mcclintock.... and Michael Jordan?

Question: I watched this movie in science class and it said that Mcclintock named something after Michael Jordan that she found. My teacher then assigned us to write a paragraph about what we watched and I am including this fact into it. What did she name after him.... and why did she like him so much?? I took notes on the movie, it is just that the narrator was going so fast that I didn't really catch what he had said.

Answer: Barbara McClintock pioneered the work on "jumping genes" where a gene can jump from one chromosome to another. She worked with maize (corn) and discovered this in the 1940s. She was eventually recognized for her achievements with a Nobel Prize in 1983. Cell biologists David Kirk, Ph.D., and Stephen Miller, Ph.D., have named a transposon, sometimes called a 'jumping gene' after the former Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan. I did not know Dr. McClintock personally, but I wager she was only vaguely aware of Michael Jordan, if at all.

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