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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 Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1931.

2. What profession did Barbara's father have?
(a) He was a fisherman.
(b) He was a dentist.
(c) He was a horse trainer.
(d) He was a doctor.

3. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1939.

4. What date was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) June 30, 1903.
(b) June 16, 1902.
(c) June 1, 1901.
(d) June 21, 1908.

5. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Five hours.
(b) Forty-five minutes.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) Two hours.

6. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?
(a) Director of the Natural Sciences Division.
(b) Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.
(c) President of the Genetics Society of America.
(d) President of the National Research Council Fellowship.

7. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) C.D. Darlington.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) James Stilworth.

8. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?
(a) Three months old.
(b) Four months old.
(c) Three years old.
(d) Four years old.

9. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1952.

10. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?
(a) A banker.
(b) A rodeo queen.
(c) A school teacher.
(d) A professional harpist.

11. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its chromosomes.
(b) Its ease of study.
(c) The length of its generations.
(d) Its genetic composition.

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

13. Where are chromosomes found?
(a) In a cell's nucleous.
(b) In a cell's spindle.
(c) On a cell's centrosome.
(d) In a cell's nucleolus.

14. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 9.
(b) Chromosome 2.
(c) Chromosome 6.
(d) Chromosome 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?

2. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

3. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?

4. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?

5. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?

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