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

Evelyn Fox Keller
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1)

What does NOR stand for? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

Nucleous orange region.
Negative opening region.
Nucleus order regulator.
Nucleolar organizer region.
2)

Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

Control.
Openness.
Reverence.
Understanding.
3)

Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year? (from Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri)

1919.
1912.
1905.
1910.
4)

When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

World Oil.
Rockefeller Group.
Consolidated Iron Mines.
Standard Oil.
5)

What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939? (from Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri)

President of the National Research Council Fellowship.
Director of the Natural Sciences Division.
Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.
President of the Genetics Society of America.
6)

Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

Second generation chromosomes.
Organisms.
Transposed cells.
Genes.
7)

Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

Stillness.
Intuition.
Observance.
Patience.
8)

What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

She thought the results were wrong.
She thought of changing her field of study.
She that it was terribly funny.
She thought that maize would be the same.
9)

Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

Ross Harrison.
L.C. Dunn.
Barbara McClintock.
C.D. Darlington.
10)

Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year? (from Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri)

1912.
1907.
1921.
1914.
11)

Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."? (from Chapter 9, A Different Language)

George Beadle.
Esther Parker.
Evelyn Witkin.
Joshua Lederberg.
12)

Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

Ross Harrison.
Harriet Creighton.
T.H. Morgan.
George Beadle.
13)

Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what? (from Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri)

The productivity of the corn itself.
The arrangement of the chromosomes.
The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
The generation length.
14)

Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country? (from Chapter 10, Molecular Biology)

Germany.
Sweden.
Brazil.
China.
15)

In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

95.
100.
110.
90.
16)

Who said of Barbara that "she was able to convey it to someone who was completely outside the field. She was able to make it real?" (from Chapter 8, Transposition)

Evelyn Witkin.
Stanley Stephens.
Marcus Rhoades.
George Beadle.
17)

Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr? (from Chapter 10, Molecular Biology)

Max Delbruck.
Barbara McClintock.
Milislav Demerec.
Lewis Stadler.
18)

What is Neurospora? (from Chapter 7, Cold Spring Harbor)

A orange mold on corn.
A gray mold on fruit.
A red mold on bread.
A green mold on mushrooms.
19)

Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where? (from Chapter 11, Transposition Rediscovered)

Naturalism in America.
American Naturalist.
The Chicago Journal.
American Scientist.
20)

How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

Three.
Two.
One.
Four.
21)

In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

1931.
1935.
1940.
1937.
22)

The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who? (from Chapter 8, Transposition)

The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
The Rockefeller Foundation.
The National Society of Sciences.
The University of Missouri.
23)

The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

Heredity, development, and transposition.
Genes, development, and evolution.
Heredity, development, and evolution.
Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
24)

When was Barbara's obvious occasion to present the full account of her work? (from Chapter 8, Transposition)

The gathering of the national Academy of Sciences.
The next scientist's convention at Rutgers University.
The next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.
The publication of Recent Advances in Cytology.
25)

Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934? (from Chapter 4, A Career for Women)

Connecticut College for Women.
University of Missouri.
Yale.
Cornell.
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