Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: McClintock ya fara karatunsa a Kwalejin Noma ta Cornell a shekarar 1919. A can, ta shiga cikin gwamnatin ɗalibai kuma an gayyace ta ta shiga ƙungiyar 'yan mata, kodayake ba da daɗewa ba ta fahimci cewa ta fi son kada ta shiga ƙungiyoyi na yau da kullun. Maimakon haka, McClintock ya ɗauki kiɗa, musamman jazz. Ta yi nazarin ilimin tsirrai, ta sami digiri na BSc a 1923. Ta fara sha'awar ilimin kwayoyin halitta lokacin da ta fara karatun ta a wannan fannin a 1921. Wannan darasin ya dogara ne akan irin wannan da aka bayar a Jami'ar Harvard, kuma C. B. Hutchison, mai shuka da kuma masanin ilimin halittar jini ne ya koyar da shi. Hutchison ya burge da sha'awar McClintock, kuma ya kira ta ta gayyace ta ta shiga cikin karatun digiri na biyu a Cornell a 1922. McClintock ya nuna gayyatar Hutchison a matsayin dalilin da ya sa ta ci gaba da nazarin kwayoyin halitta: "A bayyane yake, wannan kiran tarho ya jefa abin da zai faru a nan gaba. Na ci gaba da nazarin ƙwayoyin halitta daga baya". Kodayake an bayar da rahoton cewa mata ba za su iya zama manyan ilimin halittar jini a Cornell ba, sabili da haka MS da PhD da ta samu a 1925 da 1927, bi da bi, an ba da lambar yabo a fannin botany, binciken da aka yi kwanan nan ya nuna cewa mata sun sami digiri na biyu a sashen kula da tsire-tsire na Cornell a lokacin da McClintock ya kasance dalibi a Cornell. A lokacin karatunta na digiri na biyu da kuma nadin digiri na biyu a matsayin mai koyar da ilimin tsire-tsire, McClintock ya taimaka wajen tara rukuni wanda ya yi nazarin sabon filin cytogenetics a masara. Wannan rukuni ya haɗu da masu shuka da masu nazarin halittu, kuma sun haɗa da Marcus Rhoades, mai ba da kyautar Nobel George Beadle, da Harriet Creighton. Rollins A. Emerson, shugaban Sashen Kula da Tsire-tsire, ya goyi bayan waɗannan ƙoƙarin, duk da cewa shi kansa ba masanin ilimin halittu ba ne. Ta kuma yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar bincike ga Lowell Fitz Randolph sannan kuma ga Lester W. Sharp, duka masana kimiyyar tsire-tsire na Cornell. Binciken cytogenetic na McClintock ya mai da hankali kan samar da hanyoyin gani da kuma halayyar chromosomes na masara. Wannan bangare na aikinta ya rinjayi ƙarni na ɗalibai, kamar yadda aka haɗa shi a yawancin litattafan. Ta kuma samu...  Tambaya: Da wa ta yi aiki a Missouri?
Lewis Stadler