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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. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Jumping elements.
(b) Leaping elements.
(c) Leaping genes.
(d) Jumping genes.

2. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its generations.
(b) Its ease of study.
(c) Its genetic composition.
(d) The length of its chromosomes.

3. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a baker.
(b) He was a scientist.
(c) He was a fish dealer.
(d) He was a farmer.

4. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?
(a) Nuclear power.
(b) Nuclear division.
(c) Sonic booms.
(d) X Rays.

5. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

2. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?

3. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?

4. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

5. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were Barbara's "personality difficulties" as described by T. H. Morgan?

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