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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 Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Twenty.

2. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?
(a) By listening to recordings that Barbara taped to teach others.
(b) By looking over Barbara's shoulder.
(c) By reading Barbara's in depth notes.
(d) By watching Barbara work from across the lab during the late night hours.

3. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?
(a) Live a long time without water.
(b) Know many scientific secrets.
(c) Regulate their body temperature.
(d) Live on what the land gives them.

4. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1927.

5. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 95.
(b) 110.
(c) 90.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

2. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

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

4. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?

5. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?

(see the answer key)

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