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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Richard B. Goldschmidt.
(c) Lewis Stadler.
(d) Curt Stern.

2. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Caterpillars.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Maize.

3. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) World Oil.
(b) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(c) Rockefeller Group.
(d) Standard Oil.

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

5. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?
(a) Ross Harrison.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) George Beadle.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

6. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Musca.
(b) Drosophilia.
(c) Anopheles.
(d) Diptera.

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

8. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Cells.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Maize kernals.
(d) Genes.

9. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

10. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1912.

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

12. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Yale.
(b) Connecticut College for Women.
(c) University of Missouri.
(d) Cornell.

13. What profession did Barbara's father have?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a horse trainer.
(c) He was a fisherman.
(d) He was a dentist.

14. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Genderate.
(b) Conjoin.
(c) Anneal.
(d) Fuse.

15. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?
(a) Mice.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Rats.
(d) Rabbits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?

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

3. What discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?

4. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

5. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

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