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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) G. Beadle.
(b) J. Lenderberg.
(c) T. Painter.
(d) M. Rhoades.

2. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1975.

3. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?
(a) Factories.
(b) Wheels.
(c) Garbage cans.
(d) Workmen.

4. What was the first name of Barbara's father?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Adam.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Henry.

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

6. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Caterpillars.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Maize.
(d) Mice.

7. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Genes, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and evolution.
(c) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and transposition.

8. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1931.

9. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The productivity of the corn itself.
(b) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
(c) The generation length.
(d) The arrangement of the chromosomes.

10. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) Charles Burnham.
(b) Rollins Emerson.
(c) George Beadle.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

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

12. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Genderate.
(b) Anneal.
(c) Conjoin.
(d) Fuse.

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

14. 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) Rockefeller Group.
(b) World Oil.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) Consolidated Iron Mines.

15. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) C.D. Darlington.

Short Answer Questions

1. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?

2. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

3. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?

4. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

5. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?

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