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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. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) Transfusion.
(b) The chromatids.
(c) The nuclei.
(d) The genetic systems.

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

3. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) L.C. Dunn.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

4. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?
(a) Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.
(b) President of the National Research Council Fellowship.
(c) President of the Genetics Society of America.
(d) Director of the Natural Sciences Division.

5. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Connecticut College for Women.
(c) Yale.
(d) University of Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

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

3. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?

4. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?

5. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When C.D. Darlington was describing the views of colleagues in different types of sciences, which type of scientist does he compare to the naturalist and how does a naturalist see chromosomes?

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

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

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

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

8. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

9. What happened when Barbara signed up for a large overload of classes at Cornell and why did she do it?

10. Why did Barbara experience long-term consequences because of the absence of a professional niche?

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