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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. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1905.

2. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?
(a) She taught dance.
(b) She gave violin lessons.
(c) She taught cooking classes.
(d) She gave piano lessons.

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) Jumping genes.
(b) Leaping elements.
(c) Jumping elements.
(d) Leaping genes.

4. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?
(a) President of the Genetics Society.
(b) Secretary of the Genetics Society.
(c) Treasurer of the National Academy of Science.
(d) Vice President of the National Academy of Science.

5. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

2. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

3. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

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

5. What profession did Barbara's father have?

(see the answer key)

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