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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. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Charles Burnham.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

2. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?
(a) He helped pay for a new bike for Barbara.
(b) He was her priest.
(c) He was her thesis advisor.
(d) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.

3. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1905.

4. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) M. Rhoades.
(b) G. Beadle.
(c) T. Painter.
(d) J. Lenderberg.

5. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?
(a) Frank Hanson.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) W.C. Curtis.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

2. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?

3. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

4. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

5. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three stages of prophase in meiosis?

2. How did Barbara spend her time between the years of 1931 and 1933?

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

4. Why did Barbara's position at Missouri not work out, according to Barbara herself?

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

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

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. Why was the year 1944 a crucial year for Barbara McClintock and the history of genetics?

10. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?

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