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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 what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?
(a) January.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) October.

2. 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 make up particular objects?
(c) How are genes important to the world of science?
(d) How do genes change in generations?

3. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Chromatin.
(c) Plasma membrane.
(d) Protein.

4. How many winters did Barbara spend in Central and South America?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

5. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Richard Goldschmidt.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

2. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?

3. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?

4. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?

5. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After a decade of total frustration in her efforts, what happened to make Barbara think that the resistance would be weakened that she had encountered?

3. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?

4. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?

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

6. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?

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

8. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?

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

10. What did Keller say about good science and what does it need to proceed?

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