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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Fuse.
(b) Genderate.
(c) Anneal.
(d) Conjoin.

3. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Richard B. Goldschmidt.
(c) Stephen Jay Gould.
(d) Alfred Sturtevant.

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

5. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Cytology.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Botany.

6. What profession did Barbara's father have?
(a) He was a fisherman.
(b) He was a horse trainer.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a dentist.

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

8. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) Rockefeller Group.
(b) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) World Oil.

9. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1927.

10. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Meiosis.
(d) Division prophase.

11. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?
(a) Missouri State University.
(b) The University of Missouri.
(c) Webster University.
(d) The University of Central Missouri.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

2. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

3. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?

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

5. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

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