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

Evelyn Fox Keller
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Cold Spring Harbor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Saxaphone.
(b) Piano.
(c) Tenor banjo.
(d) Bass guitar.

2. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1943.

3. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleus order regulator.
(b) Negative opening region.
(c) Nucleolar organizer region.
(d) Nucleous orange region.

4. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1947.

5. Who was considered to be the severest critic in the field of genetics during Barbara's time in the field?
(a) Stephen Jay Gould.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Alfred Sturtevant.
(d) Richard B. Goldschmidt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?

2. What high school did Barbara attend?

3. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?

4. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

5. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

(see the answer key)

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