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

Evelyn Fox Keller

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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

President of the National Research Council Fellowship.

President of the Genetics Society of America.

Director of the Natural Sciences Division.

Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.

2.

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

A red mold on bread.

A green mold on mushrooms.

A gray mold on fruit.

A orange mold on corn.

3.

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 Rockefeller Foundation.

The Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The University of Missouri.

The National Society of Sciences.

4.

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.

5.

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

1931.

1940.

1937.

1935.

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