Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

In which crop were jumping genes first discovered?

Correct answer B. Maize

Explanation

Barbara McClintock discovered transposable elements, the Ac/Ds system, in maize in the 1940s while studying kernel colour variegation, earning the 1983 Nobel Prize.

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