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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 the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?
(a) Rings around the outside husk of the corn.
(b) Streaks or spots of color.
(c) No growth of kernals in many spots.
(d) Discolored kernals that were green.

2. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Genes.
(b) Maize kernals.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Cells.

3. How many parts are in the process of transposition?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?
(a) Because no one wanted to work with Barbara.
(b) Because of the war.
(c) Because they closed their doors for a couple years.
(d) Because they didn't have any openings for new scientists.

5. 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?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?

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

3. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?

4. 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?

5. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?

(see the answer key)

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