num_pages: 48
description: Written especially for young adult readers, this series helps place each significant invention, discovery, or development in historical perspective while exploring the life of the person responsible for each breakthrough. Readers will travel back in time to learn about each important scientific, medical, or technological discovery. No science fiction story even approximates the mystery and suspense contained in these true science biographies.Pioneering American geneticist best known for her discovery of "jumping genes."
language: English
title: Barbara McClintock: Pioneering Geneticist
titlecomplete: Barbara McClintock: Pioneering Geneticist (Unlocking the Secrets of Science)
genres: Middle Grade, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Mitchell Lane Pub Inc