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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?
(a) Curt Stern.
(b) Richard B. Goldschmidt.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

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

5. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1939.

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

7. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1964.

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

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

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

11. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Mice.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Maize.
(d) Mosquitoes.

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

13. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Rats.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

14. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Tenor banjo.
(b) Bass guitar.
(c) Piano.
(d) Saxaphone.

15. How does a chemist see chromosomes?
(a) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(b) As a property of the organism.
(c) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(d) Through a math formula.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

2. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?

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

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

5. What profession did Barbara's father have?

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