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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the director of the 1951 symposium?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Milislav Demerec.
(d) Richard Goldschmidt.

2. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?
(a) A rodeo queen.
(b) A school teacher.
(c) A banker.
(d) A professional harpist.

3. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1904.

4. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) Fruit flies.
(b) Maize studies.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) DNA.

5. Who was the French intellectual who was mentioned in Chapter 11 that broke with the Communist Party in 1945?
(a) Francois Jacob.
(b) Jacques Alexander César.
(c) Jacques Monod.
(d) Jean Picard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who extended an invitation to Barbara to help in the collection and preservation of maize in Central and South America?

2. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?

3. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?

4. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?

5. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

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