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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Mice.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Maize.
(d) Mosquitoes.
2. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?
(a) Dicentric.
(b) Dichromosomic.
(c) Digenetic.
(d) Dicentromeric.
3. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Curt Stern.
(d) Richard B. Goldschmidt.
4. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Lester Sharp.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Thomas Belling.
5. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?
(a) The University of Missouri.
(b) Missouri State University.
(c) Webster University.
(d) The University of Central Missouri.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?
2. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
3. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?
4. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
5. How does a chemist see chromosomes?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?
2. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?
3. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?
4. Why was it described in the book that Barbara was born into the role of maverick and pioneer?
5. What two people did Barbara McClintock invite to Cold Spring Harbor to outline the parallels with her own work and how was their work different from McClintock's?
6. An excerpt from Frank Hanson's informal notes about Barbara McClintock are found in Chapter 4. How does Hanson describe Barbara's physical appearance?
7. When Ross Harrison gave his retirement speech from the vice presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937, what did he state the embryologist was more concerned with?
8. What did James A. Peters say about the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote?
9. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?
10. Who was the person that came to Cornell to get his PhD in genetics, why did he come to Cornell, and what was his previous experience?
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