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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 First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1958.

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

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

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

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

6. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?
(a) Warren Weaver.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Harriet Creighton.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

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

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

9. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Leaping genes.
(b) Leaping elements.
(c) Jumping elements.
(d) Jumping genes.

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

11. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?
(a) Genes.
(b) Cells.
(c) Mutations.
(d) Chromosomes.

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

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

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

15. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?
(a) Barbara plants.
(b) Transfusion treat.
(c) McClintock corn.
(d) Ring chromosome plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?

2. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?

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

4. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

5. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?

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