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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. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

2. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?

3. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?

4. 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?

5. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened after Barbara delivered her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

2. What happened when Lotte Auerbach from the University of Edinburgh visited Barbara in her lab at Cold Spring Harbor?

3. 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?"

4. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?

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

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

7. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?

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

9. Why was Barbara apprehensive about presenting her data at the next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what transposition is. What was the importance of Barbara's discovery of transposition in maize? How did this discovery affect the scientific world and Barbara's life?

Essay Topic 2

Describe what mitosis is and also describe the stages in mitosis and what happens during those phases.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the significance of Barbara McClintock to the world of science. Describe McClintock's importance to women in science. How did individuals benefit from knowing and working with McClintock?

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