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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. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) Its ease of study.
(b) Its genetic composition.
(c) The length of its generations.
(d) The length of its chromosomes.

2. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Two years.

3. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1929.

4. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Cytology.
(c) Botany.
(d) Zoology.

5. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?
(a) The Mad Hatter.
(b) Humpty Dumpty.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The Queen of Hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?

2. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?

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

4. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"

5. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?

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