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Barbara McClintock, an Uncommon card
Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Ranked #638 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927.
- There, she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life.
- From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barbara McClintock article was read about 70,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barbara McClintock (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Smithsonian Institution /Science Service, Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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