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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. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Wing shape.
(b) Eye shape.
(c) Wing color.
(d) Leg thickness.

2. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Musca.
(b) Diptera.
(c) Anopheles.
(d) Drosophilia.

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

4. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1980.

5. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?
(a) Three months old.
(b) Three years old.
(c) Four years old.
(d) Four months old.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

2. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

3. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?

4. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?

5. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

(see the answer key)

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