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Multiple Choice - Chapter 1, A Historical Overview

1. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?
a) 1900.
b) 1910.
c) 1902.
d) 1904.

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
a) 1915.
b) 1902.
c) 1912.
d) 1905.

3. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?
a) Fly Room.
b) Fly Lab.
c) Guy's Room.
d) Fly Guy's Lab.

4. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?
a) Mycogenetics
b) Radiation genetics.
c) Cytogenetics.
d) Botony.

5. What were the...
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