# internationalwomensday transposons iwd23 womeninstem

On this I salute all the women studying carrying the torch lit by Barbara McClintock, who remains the only woman awarded an unshared Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

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25 - Transposon!

With transposons, I always think back to the first introduction I had to genetics in university, which was all about the maize genome. Barbara McClintock described Mobile Genetic Elements in Maize, for which she got a Novel prize.

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