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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The climactic decade.
(b) The evolving decade.
(c) The newborn decade.
(d) The discovery decade.

2. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Guesses.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Mistakes.

3. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?
(a) Richard B. Goldschmidt.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Alfred Sturtevant.
(d) Stephen Jay Gould.

4. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) The chromatids.
(b) The nuclei.
(c) Transfusion.
(d) The genetic systems.

5. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Harriet Creighton.
(b) Mary Jane Creighton.
(c) Harriet Guthrie.
(d) Mary Jane Guthrie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?

2. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?

3. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?

4. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?

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