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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 Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
2. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
3. What does the term, dissociation mean?
4. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?
5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Among the plants in Barbara's very first crop there was one that was particularly noteworthy. Why?
2. 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?
3. What did George Beadle tell Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation about Barbara's visit to Stanford?
4. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?
5. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?
6. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?
7. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?
8. How did Barbara arrange to get an invitation to Cold Spring Harbor?
9. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?
10. Why did Freeman Dyson state that Richard Feynman was unable to communicate and hard to understand?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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