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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
(a) Belief and hope.
(b) Internal visions.
(c) Persistence.
(d) Unlikely solutions.

2. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Cells.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

4. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Observance.
(c) Patience.
(d) Stillness.

5. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) How do genes make exact copies of themselves?
(b) How do genes change in generations?
(c) How do genes make up particular objects?
(d) How are genes important to the world of science?

6. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) Complete disappearance of a part.
(b) Combining into larger masses.
(c) The processing of materials into a different material.
(d) Controlled breakage.

7. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Charles B. Davenport.
(b) Vannevar Bush.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Salvador Luria.

8. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?
(a) The Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) The University of Missouri.
(c) The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(d) The National Society of Sciences.

9. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?
(a) Regulate their body temperature.
(b) Live a long time without water.
(c) Live on what the land gives them.
(d) Know many scientific secrets.

10. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1955.

11. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?
(a) The National Academy of Sciences.
(b) The Organization of National Sciences.
(c) The National Institute of Medicine.
(d) The National Academies.

12. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1951.

13. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?
(a) Jacques Alexander César.
(b) Jacques Monod.
(c) Jean Picard.
(d) Francois Jacob.

14. How many parts are in the process of transposition?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

15. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) CNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Multiple nuclei.
(d) RNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?

2. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

3. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"

4. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?

5. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?

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