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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. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?

3. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"

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

5. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?

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

6. 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?"

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?"

Essay Topic 3

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?

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