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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1941.
2. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?
(a) Geology.
(b) Botony.
(c) Geography.
(d) Meteorology.
3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1940.
4. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Peering at it through a microscope.
(b) Looking at the whole organism.
(c) Looking at the genetic code.
(d) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
5. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleous orange region.
(b) Negative opening region.
(c) Nucleolar organizer region.
(d) Nucleus order regulator.
Short Answer Questions
1. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?
2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
3. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
4. How does a chemist see chromosomes?
5. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Barbara spend her time between the years of 1931 and 1933?
2. Describe Barbara's temperament as a child and what happened because of it.
3. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?
4. An excerpt from Frank Hanson's informal notes about Barbara McClintock are found in Chapter 4. How does Hanson describe Barbara's physical appearance?
5. What was the subject of the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote in 1931?
6. What are the three stages of prophase in meiosis?
7. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?
8. Why did Barbara experience long-term consequences because of the absence of a professional niche?
9. Who was the person that came to Cornell to get his PhD in genetics, why did he come to Cornell, and what was his previous experience?
10. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?
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