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

2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Genderate.
(b) Conjoin.
(c) Fuse.
(d) Anneal.

3. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(b) Peering at it through a microscope.
(c) Looking at the whole organism.
(d) Looking at the genetic code.

4. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1964.

5. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Division prophase.
(c) Meiosis.
(d) Metaphase.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?

2. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?

3. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

4. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?

5. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did James A. Peters say about the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote?

2. Why did Barbara adamantly reject female conventions and why was she not trying to just be "more boy than girl"?

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

4. What was the difference of studying genetics in maize versus Drosophilia?

5. What was the subject of the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote in 1931?

6. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?

7. What two people did Barbara McClintock invite to Cold Spring Harbor to outline the parallels with her own work and how was their work different from McClintock's?

8. In 1931, why did Barbara start to feel like it was time to leave Cornell?

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

10. Who was Lewis Stadler and why did he want Barbara as a colleague?

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