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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Erasmus Hall High School.
(b) Brooklyn High School.
(c) James Madison High School.
(d) Maxwell High School.

2. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?
(a) Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.
(b) President of the National Research Council Fellowship.
(c) President of the Genetics Society of America.
(d) Director of the Natural Sciences Division.

3. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) Her father, Dr. McClintock.
(c) Lewis Stadler.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

4. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Peering at it through a microscope.
(b) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(c) Looking at the genetic code.
(d) Looking at the whole organism.

5. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The arrangement of the chromosomes.
(b) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
(c) The generation length.
(d) The productivity of the corn itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

2. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?

3. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?

4. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

5. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?

(see the answer key)

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