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

2. What does the term, dissociation mean?

3. In Chapter 12, Keller mentions that the adaptability of what tends to be especially unappreciated?

4. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?

5. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Keller say about good science and what does it need to proceed?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Rudolf Arnheim's words he wrote in Art and Visual Perception saying, "the realm of the unconscious could never enter our experience without the reflection of perceivable things." How does this quote relate to the life of Barbara McClintock?

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