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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 did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?

2. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

3. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?

4. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

5. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two people did Barbara McClintock invite to Cold Spring Harbor to outline the parallels with her own work and how was their work different from McClintock's?

2. What award did Brandeis University give McClintock and what was the award for?

3. What was the difference of studying genetics in maize versus Drosophilia?

4. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?

5. How did Barbara spend her time between the years of 1931 and 1933?

6. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

7. What happened the time that Barbara was out playing basketball or volleyball in the neighborhood and a woman called her over to her house?

8. When Ross Harrison gave his retirement speech from the vice presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937, what did he state the embryologist was more concerned with?

9. What happened when Barbara discovered a way to identify maize chromosomes when she was working as a paid assistant to a cytologist?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book was a biography written by Evelyn Keller, therefore it's a book about Barbara McClintock that was written by someone else. How do you think this book would have been different if McClintock would have written it herself? What are some events or people that you think would have been described differently had McClintock written the book herself? Explain your answers and use specific information from the book to support your views

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 12, Evelyn Keller asks the question, "What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?" She then answers with words from Barbara. In your own words describe how Barbara answered this question and then also answer the question from your own point of view after reading the book.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book we learn and read about times in science when there were surprises because the implied ideas weren't met. What were some of these surprises that Barbara or others met? How did these surprises help Barbara's work? Did some of these surprises hinder Barbara's progression in her work?

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