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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. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?
(a) American Scientist.
(b) Naturalism in America.
(c) American Naturalist.
(d) The Chicago Journal.

2. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleous orange region.
(b) Nucleolar organizer region.
(c) Nucleus order regulator.
(d) Negative opening region.

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"?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Warren Weaver.
(c) T.H. Morgan.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

4. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?
(a) Professor.
(b) Assistant Graduate Professor.
(c) Graduate Work Professor.
(d) Assistant Professor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?

2. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

3. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?

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

5. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?

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