Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983, at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another.

• AUnlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were  
• BAlthough many of her colleagues were of the conviction of genes being  
• CContrary to many of her colleagues being convinced that genes were  
• DEven though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were  
• EEven with many of her colleagues convinced of genes being