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

Evelyn Fox Keller
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

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

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1939.

2. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Three years.

3. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Forty-five minutes.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Thirty minutes.

4. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?
(a) July.
(b) January.
(c) October.
(d) March.

5. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?
(a) Warren Weaver.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

2. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

3. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?

4. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?

5. In Drosophila a bacterium divide in two every how many minutes?

(see the answer key)

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