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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

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

3. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?
(a) American Naturalist.
(b) The Chicago Journal.
(c) Naturalism in America.
(d) American Scientist.

4. 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 are genes important to the world of science?
(d) How do genes make up particular objects?

5. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?
(a) Streaks or spots of color.
(b) No growth of kernals in many spots.
(c) Rings around the outside husk of the corn.
(d) Discolored kernals that were green.

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

7. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?
(a) They make a list of rules that the order should follow.
(b) They identify any possibilites in a different order.
(c) They watch the development of the order and then compare it to other orders.
(d) Look for events that disturb that order.

8. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?
(a) The early 1940's.
(b) The early 1950's.
(c) The late 1920's.
(d) The early 1930's.

9. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?
(a) Messenger RNA.
(b) Transfer RNA.
(c) Ribosomal RNA.
(d) Coding RNA.

10. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?
(a) Sweden.
(b) China.
(c) Germany.
(d) Brazil.

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

12. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?
(a) Her willingness to let her brain take over.
(b) Her ultimate knowledge.
(c) Her drive to succeed.
(d) Her love for studying.

13. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) The University of Edinburgh.
(d) Cold Spring Harbor.

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

15. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?

2. What does the term, dissociation mean?

3. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?

4. Barbara was impressed by the ability of some Tibetans to do what?

5. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

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