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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The generation length.
(b) The arrangement of the chromosomes.
(c) The productivity of the corn itself.
(d) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.

4. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and transposition.
(c) Genes, development, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and evolution.

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

6. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.
(b) That they would have to fire her.
(c) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.
(d) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?
(a) Seclusion.
(b) Completed.
(c) Alone.
(d) Autonomy.

14. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?
(a) Sonic booms.
(b) X Rays.
(c) Nuclear power.
(d) Nuclear division.

15. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?
(a) She taught cooking classes.
(b) She taught dance.
(c) She gave violin lessons.
(d) She gave piano lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?

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

3. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?

4. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?

5. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

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