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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?
(a) Treasurer of the National Academy of Science.
(b) Vice President of the National Academy of Science.
(c) Secretary of the Genetics Society.
(d) President of the Genetics Society.

3. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1973.

4. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Genes.
(b) Maize kernals.
(c) Cells.
(d) Chromosomes.

5. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?
(a) Frank Hanson.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) W.C. Curtis.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

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

7. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?
(a) $90,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $80,000.
(d) $70,000.

8. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?
(a) Ross Harrison.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) T.H. Morgan.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

9. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

10. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Mary Jane Creighton.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Mary Jane Guthrie.
(d) Harriet Guthrie.

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

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

13. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) DNA.
(b) Fruit flies.
(c) Maize studies.
(d) Chromosomes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

2. Where are chromosomes found?

3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

4. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

5. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?

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