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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Capacity to Be Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first name of Barbara's father?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Henry.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Adam.

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?
(a) Fly Room.
(b) Guy's Room.
(c) Fly Guy's Lab.
(d) Fly Lab.

3. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Leaping elements.
(b) Jumping elements.
(c) Jumping genes.
(d) Leaping genes.

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

5. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Piano.
(b) Bass guitar.
(c) Saxaphone.
(d) Tenor banjo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?

2. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

3. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

4. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?

5. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?

(see the answer key)

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