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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?

2. What does NOR stand for?

3. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?

4. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

5. What profession did Barbara's father have?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the mid-1930's and when she left Missouri what had she considered doing because of her jobless status?

2. What does C.D. Darlington remind his colleagues of in the opening pages of Recent Advances in Cytology?

3. Why did Barbara experience long-term consequences because of the absence of a professional niche?

4. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?

5. What were Barbara's "personality difficulties" as described by T. H. Morgan?

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

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

8. Why did Barbara's position at Missouri not work out, according to Barbara herself?

9. What did James A. Peters say about the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote?

10. In 1931, why did Barbara start to feel like it was time to leave Cornell?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book there were people, such as Marcus Rhoades, who were friends who were also colleagues with Barbara and believed in her research. Explain Barbara's relationship with her colleagues. How was she like her colleagues and how was she different from her colleagues. Use specific information from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is it evident in the book that scientists and we, as a society, underestimate the flexibility of living organisms? Are humans becoming better at accepting and understanding what living organisms can do? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Watson and Crick's research, what they were famous for, and what their answer was to the question in Chapter 11, "how do genes make exact copies of themselves?"

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