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Barbara McClintock is famous for her work on which plant?

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Wheat

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Rice

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Maize

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Pisum

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The correct option is A Maize
Barbara Mc Clintock began her scientific career at Cornell University, where she pioneered the study of cytogenetics in the 1930s using maize as a model organism. Mc Clintock is best known for her discovery of transposable elements through experimentation with maize. Thus option C is the correct answer.

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