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

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

3. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) James Stilworth.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) C.D. Darlington.

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

5. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?

2. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

3. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

4. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?

5. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the different stages of mitosis?

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

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

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

9. What happened to Barbara a little more than a year after her brother, Tom, was born?

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

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