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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1915.

2. At what age did Barbara ask for a set of tools?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

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

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

6. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) Ross Harrison.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

7. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) Kansas.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Iowa.

8. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Lester Sharp.
(c) Thomas Belling.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

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

10. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1881.

11. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?
(a) Her name.
(b) Her teacher's name.
(c) The name of the class.
(d) The room number the class was in.

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

13. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1940.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

2. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

3. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

4. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

5. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

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