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Lable each underlined word with the part of speech....Noun, pronoun, adjective,Verb, adverb,preposition,Coordinating conjunction,Correlative conjunction, subordinating conjunction
The geneticist Barbara McClintock was a nonconformist(1). She preferred(2) the company of the corn plants that she (3) eagerly studied to the companionship of many of the people she knew. When she won the Nobel Prize in 1983, she learned of it over the radio because(4) she had no telephone.
McClintock worked alone (5) throughout her fifty-year career at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, in the 1940s and(6) 1950s, McClintock discovered(7) that parts of chromosomes break off and recombine(8) with neighboring(9) chromosomes to create unique genetic combinations. This process, known as crossing over, amazed scientists and demonstrated that chromosomes formed the basis of genetics. Still, scientists resisted McClintock's findings and did not recognize the importance of (10)her research for many years (11) . Only after(12) geneticists found(13) crossing over genes in both(14a) plants and(14b) animals was the great value of McClintock's discovery acknowledged, "Thirty to forty years later, she won(15) the 1983 Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking achievement.
Overall, McClintock's life was lonely(16), but her career was very productive. By the time of her death in 1992, her colleagues had finally come to realize that Barbara McClintock was one(17) of the towering giants of genetics.
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Lable each underlined word with the part of speech....Noun, pronoun, adjective,Verb, adverb,preposition,Coordinating conjunction,Correlative conjunction, subordinating conjunction
The geneticist Barbara McClintock was a nonconformist(1). She preferred(2) the company of the corn plants that she (3) eagerly studied to the companionship of many of the people she knew. When she won the Nobel Prize in 1983, she learned of it over the radio because(4) she had no telephone.
McClintock worked alone (5) throughout her fifty-year career at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, in the 1940s and(6) 1950s, McClintock discovered(7) that parts of chromosomes break off and recombine(8) with neighboring(9) chromosomes to create unique genetic combinations. This process, known as crossing over, amazed scientists and demonstrated that chromosomes formed the basis of genetics. Still, scientists resisted McClintock's findings and did not recognize the importance of (10)her research for many years (11) . Only after(12) geneticists found(13) crossing over genes in both(14a) plants and(14b) animals was the great value of McClintock's discovery acknowledged, "Thirty to forty years later, she won(15) the 1983 Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking achievement.
Overall, McClintock's life was lonely(16), but her career was very productive. By the time of her death in 1992, her colleagues had finally come to realize that Barbara McClintock was one(17) of the towering giants of genetics.
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