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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(b) Mendelian Segregation.
(c) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.

2. What discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?
(a) The discovery of giant kernal change chromosomes in maize.
(b) The discovery of the small salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(c) The discovery of small kernal change chromosomes in maize.
(d) The discovery of the giant salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.

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

4. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?
(a) Dichromosomic.
(b) Digenetic.
(c) Dicentric.
(d) Dicentromeric.

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

6. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) The chromatids.
(b) Transfusion.
(c) The genetic systems.
(d) The nuclei.

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

8. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?
(a) The silk.
(b) The kernel.
(c) The husk.
(d) The stalk.

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

10. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?
(a) Hugh Gavlin.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Lewis Stadler.
(d) L.C. Dunn.

11. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?
(a) Weekend get-togethers.
(b) Class time with other professors.
(c) Faculty meetings.
(d) Decisions about the department.

12. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?
(a) Every 20 days.
(b) Every 15 days.
(c) Every 5 days.
(d) Every 10 days.

13. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Connecticut College for Women.
(b) Yale.
(c) University of Missouri.
(d) Cornell.

14. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1938.

15. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1914.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?

3. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

4. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

5. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

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