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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 year did Lewis Stadler die?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1951.

2. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Cells.
(b) Genes.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Scientists.

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

4. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?
(a) A good scientist.
(b) A openness to change.
(c) A willingness to accept a different solution than what you were hoping for.
(d) A deep emotional investment on the part of the scientist.

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) Stony silence.
(b) Stunned awkwardness.
(c) Grateful applause.
(d) Loud cheers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?

4. The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who?

5. What does the term, dissociation mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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