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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. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?
(a) Patience.
(b) Observance.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Intuition.

2. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?
(a) The Queen of Hearts.
(b) The Mad Hatter.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) Humpty Dumpty.

3. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
(a) She thought that maize would be the same.
(b) She thought of changing her field of study.
(c) She thought the results were wrong.
(d) She that it was terribly funny.

4. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

5. How many kinds of RNA are made?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?

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

3. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?

4. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?

5. DNA makes RNA and RNA makes what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the answer to Eveyln Keller's question when she asks, "What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?"

5. What is the example involving Love Canal that Barbara tries to explain relating to scientists and engineers?

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

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

8. Why did it take Barbara six years before she could present the scientific world with her ideas on transposition?

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

10. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?

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