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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz

Evelyn Fox Keller
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Feeling for the Organism.

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz

Evelyn Fox Keller
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Feeling for the Organism.

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists? (from Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism)

2.

Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology? (from Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain)

3.

Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where? (from Chapter 11, Transposition Rediscovered)

4.

Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year? (from Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri)

5.

The step-by-step evolution of Barbara's interpretation could be followed from her annual reports she wrote for who? (from Chapter 8, Transposition)

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