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
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

2. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?

3. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?

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

5. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Barbara signed up for a large overload of classes at Cornell and why did she do it?

2. Why did Barbara adamantly reject female conventions and why was she not trying to just be "more boy than girl"?

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

4. After Barbara received her PhD in botany and was appointed as an instructor, she knew what her next task would be. What was that task?

5. What happened the time that Barbara was out playing basketball or volleyball in the neighborhood and a woman called her over to her house?

6. When Barbara went to Germany because of her Guggenheim Fellowship, why did she describe it later as a "very, very traumatic" experience?

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

8. What did T.H. Morgan tell a disappointed reader who confronted him about his book, Embryology and Genetics?

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

10. What are some things that were described in Chapter 5 that Barbara did that "irk the authorities" at Missouri?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Barbara visited Germany, she was faced with much sadness and turmoil because it was during the time of World War II and Hitler's reign. How do you think this experience affected Barbara and influenced her over the course of her life? Do you think this experience made her a better person? A better scientist? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Barbara McClintock broke free "of the hidden constraints of tacit assumptions" and allowed "the results of [her] experiments to speak for themselves."

Essay Topic 3

Explain Watson and Crick's research, what they were famous for, and what their answer was to the question in Chapter 11, "how do genes make exact copies of themselves?"

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