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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. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
2. 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?
3. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?
4. Evelyn Keller mentioned that Barbara told "us" that one must have the time to do what?
5. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened after Barbara delivered her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?
2. What did Keller say about good science and what does it need to proceed?
3. What were some of the reasons that Cold Spring Harbor was appealing to scientists during the summer?
4. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?
5. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?
6. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?
7. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?
8. In Chapter 7, when it was mentioned that Barbara was in private upheaval, what significant event happened during that time and why was she in private upheaval?
9. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?
10. 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?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe what mitosis is and also describe the stages in mitosis and what happens during those phases.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe how Barbara's parents had an influence on her growing up and as an adult. Where do you think Barbara got her independence and scientific mind from?
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