Women in genetics and biotechnology

WOMEN IN GENETICS AND BIOTECHNOLOGYBy Vicent Úbeda Belmonte

- Rosalind Franklin

- Barbara McClintock

- Gertrude Belle Ellion

Women who have done a really important work in genetics and biotechnology

We are talking about...

GENETICSIt’s the study of genes, heredity and genetic variation in living organisms

BIOTECHNOLOGYIt’s the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products

ROSALIND FRANKLIN● London, 1920 - London, 1958

● Chemist and crystallographer

● She was taught in Cambridge University○ In hard conditions because

she was a woman

● Died by a cancer○ Produced by her work with

X-rays

IMPORTANT FACTS...● Important researches about DNA structure, virus, coal and graphite

○ She take the “Picture 51”■ Which helped to know everything we

know about DNA nowadays

● However, the merits were attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick

BARBARA MCCLINTOCK● United States, 1902 - United

States, 1992

● She studied botany, then, she specialized in cytogenetics of corn

● She studied in Cornell University

● Nobel Award in 1983

IMPORTANT FACTS...

● Hypothesis about the regulation of gene expression and transmission of characters from parents to offspring

● Study of cytogenetic of South American races of corn

GERTRUDE BELLE ELLION● United States, 1918 - United

States, 1999

● Biochemist and pharmacologisto She couldn’t work as

scientist because she was a woman

● Graduated in New York University

● Nobel Award in 1988

IMPORTANT FACTS...

● First treatment against leukaemia

● First immunosuppressive agent

● Medicines against malaria and gout

● Treatment against Herpes virus

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