A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Evelyn Fox Keller
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, A Different Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for the process of synapsis?
(a) Conjugation.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Duplication.
(d) Transfusion.

2. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Cells.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Maize kernals.
(d) Genes.

3. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Heredity, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(c) Heredity, development, and transposition.
(d) Genes, development, and evolution.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Stunned awkwardness.
(b) Loud cheers.
(c) Grateful applause.
(d) Stony silence.

5. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(b) Peering at it through a microscope.
(c) Looking at the whole organism.
(d) Looking at the genetic code.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?

2. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?

3. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?

4. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?

5. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

(see the answer key)

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