Barbara McClintock eğitimine 1919 senesinde Cornell Üniversitesinde başlamıştır.[1] Orada, öğrenci yönetimine katılmıştır ve bir kız birliğine davet edilmiştir. Ancak kısa bir süre sonra resmi organizasyonlara katılmamayı tercih ettiğini fark etmiştir. McClintock bunun yerine müziğe, özellikle Jazz'a yönelmiştir. 1923 senesinde botanik eğitimi almıştır[2]. Genetiğe olan ilgisi o alandaki ilk kursunu 1921 yılında almasıyla başlamıştır. Kurs, Harvard üniversitesinde sunulan benzer bir kursa dayanıyordu ve bir bitki yetiştiricisi ve genetikçi olan C.B.Hutchinson[3] tarafından öğretilmiştir. Hutchinson, McClintock'un ilgisinden etkilenmiştir ve onu 1922 senesinde Cornell'deki lisansüstü genetik kursuna katılmaya davet etmek için telefon etmiştir. McClintock, Hutchison'un davetine, genetiğe olan ilgisinin katalizörü olarak işaret etmiştir: '' Açıkçası bu telefon görüşmesi geleceğimi zedeledi, daha sonra orada genetikle kaldım''.
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McClintock, B. (1941). "The Stability of Broken Ends of Chromosomes in Zea Mays". Genetics 26 (2): 234–282. PMC 1209127. PMID 17247004. edit
McClintock, B. (1945). "Neurospora. I. Preliminary Observations of the Chromosomes of Neurospora crassa". American Journal of Botany 32 (10): 671–678. doi:10.2307/2437624. edit
McClintock, B. (1950). "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 36 (6): 344–355. doi:10.1073/pnas.36.6.344. PMC 1063197. PMID 15430309. edit
McClintock, B. (1953). "Induction of Instability at Selected Loci in Maize". Genetics 38 (6): 579–599. PMC 1209627. PMID 17247459. edit
McClintock, B. (1961). "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria". The American Naturalist 95 (884): 265–277. doi:10.1086/282188. edit
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McClintock, Barbara (1931), "The order of the genes C, Sh, and Wx in Zea Mays with reference to a cytologically known point in the chromosome", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 (17), ss.485-91, doi:10.1073/pnas.17.8.485
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McClintock, Barbara (1950), "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 36 (6), ss.344-55, doi:10.1073/pnas.36.6.344
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