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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 95.
(b) 100.
(c) 90.
(d) 110.

2. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?
(a) Genes.
(b) Neutrons.
(c) Cells.
(d) Chromosomes.

3. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Geology.
(c) Geography.
(d) Botony.

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

5. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?
(a) Harriet Creighton.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) George Beadle.
(d) Ross Harrison.

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

7. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 9.
(b) Chromosome 3.
(c) Chromosome 2.
(d) Chromosome 6.

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

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

10. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?
(a) Wheels.
(b) Workmen.
(c) Garbage cans.
(d) Factories.

11. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Charles Burnham.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

12. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Ten years.

13. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Brooklyn High School.
(b) Erasmus Hall High School.
(c) James Madison High School.
(d) Maxwell High School.

14. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Mary Jane Creighton.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Harriet Guthrie.
(d) Mary Jane Guthrie.

15. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?

2. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

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

4. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

5. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?

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