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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 Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 90.
(b) 100.
(c) 110.
(d) 95.

2. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Five hours.
(c) Forty-five minutes.
(d) Thirty minutes.

3. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Piano.
(b) Bass guitar.
(c) Tenor banjo.
(d) Saxaphone.

4. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?
(a) Transposed cells.
(b) Genes.
(c) Organisms.
(d) Second generation chromosomes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?

2. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?

3. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?

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

5. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. When Ross Harrison gave his retirement speech from the vice presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937, what did he state the embryologist was more concerned with?

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

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