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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year did Lewis Stadler die?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1950.
2. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) Combining into larger masses.
(b) Controlled breakage.
(c) The processing of materials into a different material.
(d) Complete disappearance of a part.
3. Who presented the second paper in the 1951 symposium?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Richard Goldschmidt.
(d) Lewis Stadler.
4. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Albert Einstein.
5. In 1942, why had the atmosphere at Cold Spring Harbor become even quieter than normal?
(a) Because of the war.
(b) Because they didn't have any openings for new scientists.
(c) Because they closed their doors for a couple years.
(d) Because no one wanted to work with Barbara.
Short Answer Questions
1. Keller also mentioned that Barbara suggested to us that we must have what to "hear what the material has to say to you"?
2. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?
3. In Chapter 11, Evelyn Keller states that molecular biology rescued the gene from decades of ambiguity and what?
4. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
5. What did Barbara think when she found that Drosophila that were affected by radiation were more vigorous than the standard Drosophila?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the example involving Love Canal that Barbara tries to explain relating to scientists and engineers?
2. Why did it take Barbara six years before she could present the scientific world with her ideas on transposition?
3. in the late 1950s, what was the new option that materialized for Barbara?
4. What is the answer to Eveyln Keller's question when she asks, "What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?"
5. Describe how the information or data that Barbara had collected filled her office.
6. How did Milislav Demerec describe what the view of genes was in 1941?
7. What were the three critical factors in Millikan's style of research that Holton cited?
8. How did Max Delbruck put Cold Spring Harbor on the map and for whom?
9. What did Barbara feel was an organism that was especially unappreciated and why?
10. What happened after Barbara delivered her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?
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