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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) Controlled breakage.
(b) The processing of materials into a different material.
(c) Complete disappearance of a part.
(d) Combining into larger masses.

2. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Thirty.

3. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Milislav Demerec.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) Max Delbruck.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

4. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
(a) She that it was terribly funny.
(b) She thought that maize would be the same.
(c) She thought the results were wrong.
(d) She thought of changing her field of study.

5. 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?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

6. When was Barbara's obvious occasion to present the full account of her work?
(a) The publication of Recent Advances in Cytology.
(b) The gathering of the national Academy of Sciences.
(c) The next annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.
(d) The next scientist's convention at Rutgers University.

7. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?
(a) George Beadle.
(b) Esther Parker.
(c) Evelyn Witkin.
(d) Joshua Lederberg.

8. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?
(a) Coding RNA.
(b) Ribosomal RNA.
(c) Transfer RNA.
(d) Messenger RNA.

9. Barbara felt like above all, one must have what?
(a) Understanding of the possibility of the unknown.
(b) A feeling for the organism.
(c) Ability to change our perception of things.
(d) Complete willingness to accept.

10. Evelyn Keller mentioned that Barbara told "us" that one must have the time to do what?
(a) Ponder.
(b) Think.
(c) Look.
(d) Wonder.

11. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cold Spring Harbor.

12. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Twelve years.

13. How many scientists are mentioned in the quote by Einstein when he talks about the deep longing that has to be present in scientists?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

14. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"
(a) George Beadle.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Evelyn Witkin.

15. In addition to making copies of itself, DNA also makes what?
(a) RNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) CNA.
(d) Multiple nuclei.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?

2. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?

3. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?

4. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?

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