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

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

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?
(a) The kernel.
(b) The stalk.
(c) The silk.
(d) The husk.

2. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?
(a) Secretary of the Genetics Society.
(b) President of the Genetics Society.
(c) Vice President of the National Academy of Science.
(d) Treasurer of the National Academy of Science.

3. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?
(a) Rose.
(b) Marie.
(c) Sue.
(d) Sara.

4. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Botany.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Cytology.
(d) Zoology.

5. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?
(a) "One gene-one enzyme".
(b) "Two genes-two enzymes".
(c) "Two genes-one enzyme".
(d) "One gene-two enzymes".

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

2. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?

3. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?

4. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?

5. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?

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