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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 Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1940.

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

3. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Division prophase.
(d) Meiosis.

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

5. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

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

7. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1869.

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

9. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?
(a) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.
(b) He was her priest.
(c) He was her thesis advisor.
(d) He helped pay for a new bike for Barbara.

10. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Combined.
(b) Transfused.
(c) Dual matched.
(d) Variegated.

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

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

13. What were the first chromosomes visible as?
(a) Small circular shapes.
(b) Large square-like shapes.
(c) Short fat chunks.
(d) Long slender threads.

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

15. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?
(a) Transposed cells.
(b) Genes.
(c) Second generation chromosomes.
(d) Organisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

2. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?

3. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

4. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

5. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?

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