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McClintock
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Mc·Clin·tock (m-klntk, -tk), Barbara 1902-1992.
American genetic botanist. She won a 1983 Nobel Prize for discovering that genes are mobile within the chromosomes of a plant cell.


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Previous research has shown that the periodic growth structures contained within molluscan shells develop from changes in the density of calcium carbonate, the ratio of aragonite to calcite, the proportion of calcium carbonate to conchiolin (the organic component of the shell), the size of the crystals, or the type of crystalline microstructure (Pannella & MacClintock 1968, Rhoads & Lutz 1980, Jones 1983).
KEY WORDS: Suminoe oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis, Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, age determination, bivalves, oysters, growth rates, resilium INTRODUCTION Bivalves carry a complete record of their lives in their shells (Pannella & MacClintock 1968, Lutz & Rhoads 1980, Richardson 2001).
 
 
 
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