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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. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Salvador Luria.
(b) Charles B. Davenport.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Vannevar Bush.

2. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

3. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) Multiple nuclei.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) RNA.
(d) CNA.

4. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) How do genes make exact copies of themselves?
(b) How do genes change in generations?
(c) How do genes make up particular objects?
(d) How are genes important to the world of science?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Grateful applause.
(b) Stony silence.
(c) Stunned awkwardness.
(d) Loud cheers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?

2. How many kinds of RNA are made?

3. Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"?

4. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?

5. Who presented the third paper in the 1951 symposium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lewis Stadler point out about the knowledge of genes and who else made this point with him?

2. What were some of the reasons that Cold Spring Harbor was appealing to scientists during the summer?

3. Describe how the information or data that Barbara had collected filled her office.

4. In Chapter 7, when it was mentioned that Barbara was in private upheaval, what significant event happened during that time and why was she in private upheaval?

5. What did George Beadle tell Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation about Barbara's visit to Stanford?

6. Why did Freeman Dyson state that Richard Feynman was unable to communicate and hard to understand?

7. In the early twentieth century what kind of science did biology transform into and what kind of science had it been before that?

8. What difference did Milislav Demerec observe about the symposium papers from 1941 compared to the papers from 1951?

9. How did Barbara arrange to get an invitation to Cold Spring Harbor?

10. During the time of the 1960s and 1970s what new honors did Barbara recieve from the larger world of biology?

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