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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 what year was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1902.

2. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Anopheles.
(b) Diptera.
(c) Musca.
(d) Drosophilia.

3. 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) 1973.
(d) 1975.

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?
(a) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.
(b) They should have been colorless, but there were spots of color.
(c) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(d) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.

5. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Max Delbruck.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term, dissociation mean?

2. In Chapter 12, Keller mentions that the adaptability of what tends to be especially unappreciated?

3. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?

4. Who presented the third paper in the 1951 symposium?

5. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?

(see the answer key)

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