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

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

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 12, Keller mentions that the adaptability of what tends to be especially unappreciated?
(a) Maize.
(b) Humans.
(c) Plants.
(d) Drosophila.

2. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?
(a) Assistant Professor.
(b) Professor.
(c) Graduate Work Professor.
(d) Assistant Graduate Professor.

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

4. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?
(a) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.
(b) They identify any possibilites in a different order.
(c) Look for events that disturb that order.
(d) They watch the development of the order and then compare it to other orders.

5. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?
(a) Because they didn't have any openings for new scientists.
(b) Because they closed their doors for a couple years.
(c) Because of the war.
(d) Because no one wanted to work with Barbara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?

2. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

3. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?

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

5. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?

(see the answer key)

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