View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?
(a) The husk.
(b) The stalk.
(c) The kernel.
(d) The silk.

2. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The evolving decade.
(b) The discovery decade.
(c) The newborn decade.
(d) The climactic decade.

3. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Leg thickness.
(b) Wing color.
(c) Wing shape.
(d) Eye shape.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

2. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

3. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

4. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?

5. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did T.H. Morgan tell a disappointed reader who confronted him about his book, Embryology and Genetics?

2. In the mid-1930's and when she left Missouri what had she considered doing because of her jobless status?

3. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?

4. What happened when Barbara discovered a way to identify maize chromosomes when she was working as a paid assistant to a cytologist?

5. Describe Barbara's temperament as a child and what happened because of it.

6. What does C.D. Darlington remind his colleagues of in the opening pages of Recent Advances in Cytology?

7. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

8. In Chapter 6, what are the three major concerns of twentieth-century biology that are mentioned?

9. What happened the time that Barbara was out playing basketball or volleyball in the neighborhood and a woman called her over to her house?

10. Why was it described in the book that Barbara was born into the role of maverick and pioneer?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 840 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample