View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(b) Rockefeller Group.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) World Oil.

2. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?
(a) Mycogenetics
(b) Cytogenetics.
(c) Radiation genetics.
(d) Botony.

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

4. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1910.

5. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Neurospora?

2. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

3. Who said of Barbara that "she was able to convey it to someone who was completely outside the field. She was able to make it real?"

4. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

5. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 281 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample