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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) Leaping genes.
(b) Jumping genes.
(c) Jumping elements.
(d) Leaping elements.

2. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?
(a) Mice.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Rats.

3. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Correspondence.
(b) Transferration.
(c) Transposition.
(d) Permutation.

4. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1927.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?

2. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

3. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the person that came to Cornell to get his PhD in genetics, why did he come to Cornell, and what was his previous experience?

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

6. An excerpt from Frank Hanson's informal notes about Barbara McClintock are found in Chapter 4. How does Hanson describe Barbara's physical appearance?

7. 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?

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

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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