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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, A Different Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Lester Sharp.
(d) Thomas Belling.

2. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?
(a) Six.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

4. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) M. Rhoades.
(b) G. Beadle.
(c) T. Painter.
(d) J. Lenderberg.

5. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?
(a) Elm.
(b) Pine.
(c) Eucalyptus.
(d) Weeping Willow.

Short Answer Questions

1. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?

2. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

3. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

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

5. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?

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