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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?
(a) Every 5 days.
(b) Every 10 days.
(c) Every 15 days.
(d) Every 20 days.

2. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Mendelian Segregation.
(b) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(c) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.

3. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?
(a) Mutations.
(b) Cells.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

4. What discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?
(a) The discovery of the small salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(b) The discovery of the giant salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(c) The discovery of small kernal change chromosomes in maize.
(d) The discovery of giant kernal change chromosomes in maize.

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

6. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a scientist.
(b) He was a baker.
(c) He was a fish dealer.
(d) He was a farmer.

7. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Lester Sharp.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Thomas Belling.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

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

9. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?
(a) The name of the class.
(b) The room number the class was in.
(c) Her teacher's name.
(d) Her name.

10. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1919.

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

12. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?
(a) Three years old.
(b) Three months old.
(c) Four years old.
(d) Four months old.

13. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Transferration.
(b) Correspondence.
(c) Permutation.
(d) Transposition.

14. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Variegated.
(b) Transfused.
(c) Combined.
(d) Dual matched.

15. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Division prophase.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Meiosis.
(d) Mitosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?

2. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

3. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

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

5. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

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