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Which one of the following scientists, got the Nobel Prize for discovering the concept of mobile genetic elements in maize?
  1. Jacob and Monod
  2. Beadle and Tatum
  3. Barbara McClintock
  4. H. Khorana

A
Jacob and Monod
B
Beadle and Tatum
C
Barbara McClintock
D
H. Khorana
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Jumping genes or transposons were first discovered by Barbara McClintock and M Rhoades as controlling elements. While working on chromosome breakage in maize, she observed that a chromosome-breaking locus could change its position within a chromosome or from one to another chromosome and control the expression of the gene. She named them “jumping genes”. For this achievement, she got the Nobel Prize. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

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