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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Career for Women.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Correspondence.
(b) Transferration.
(c) Permutation.
(d) Transposition.

2. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?
(a) Genes.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Cells.
(d) Mutations.

3. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1930.

4. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a farmer.
(b) He was a scientist.
(c) He was a fish dealer.
(d) He was a baker.

5. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?

2. What high school did Barbara attend?

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

4. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?

5. What were the first chromosomes visible as?

(see the answer key)

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