A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Cold Spring Harbor, New York - This is the location of the Long Island Biological Laboratories.

Long Island Biological Laboratories - This place was worked in for forty years.

Ithaca, New York - This is the location of a college and graduate school that is a subject in the book.

Cornell University - This is a college and graduate school located in New York.

The University of Missouri in Columbia - The location where there were various tensions with a department.

CalTech - This place is a Pasadena technical institute.

McClintock's Laboratory -...
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