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Barbara McClintock's Contemporaries Were Hostile to Her Discovery of Mobile

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Barbara McClintock's contemporaries were hostile to her discovery of mobile genetic elements because


A) she used unconventional laboratory techniques.
B) her previous contributions to cytogenetics had not been recognized.
C) her experimental data did not support her interpretations.
D) her ideas were in contradiction to the accepted model of a static arrangement of genes on chromosomes.
E) she was a woman in a man's world.

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