A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Evelyn Fox Keller
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Evelyn Fox Keller
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

2. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?

3. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

4. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

5. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with Sara Handy and Thomas McClintock after Thomas graduated from Boston University Medical school?

2. Who was Lewis Stadler and why did he want Barbara as a colleague?

3. What are the three stages of prophase in meiosis?

4. What were the fundamental questions of genetics during the time of the early 1930s?

5. What was the subject of the paper that Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock wrote in 1931?

6. In the mid-1930's and when she left Missouri what had she considered doing because of her jobless status?

7. Why did Barbara experience long-term consequences because of the absence of a professional niche?

8. In Chapter 6, what are the three major concerns of twentieth-century biology that are mentioned?

9. What is the final stage of mitosis and what happens during this phase?

10. What does C.D. Darlington remind his colleagues of in the opening pages of Recent Advances in Cytology?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book there were people, such as Marcus Rhoades, who were friends who were also colleagues with Barbara and believed in her research. Explain Barbara's relationship with her colleagues. How was she like her colleagues and how was she different from her colleagues. Use specific information from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Do you think Evelyn Keller did a good job in describing what type of person Barbara McClintock was? How did Keller do at describing scientific jargon or vocabulary to the average reader? How did Keller touch each part of McClintock's life in her book? Explain your answers and use specific information from the book to support your explanations.

Essay Topic 3

During the course of her life, Barbara McClintock had to deal with a lot of prejudices just because she was a woman. How would her life have been different had she been a man? Do you think she ever regretted the fact that she was a woman? Why or why not? Do you think women today still face certain barriers and "glass ceilings"? Explain your reasoning.

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