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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. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

2. How does a chemist see chromosomes?
(a) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(b) As a property of the organism.
(c) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(d) Through a math formula.

3. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Genes, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and evolution.
(c) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and transposition.

4. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) C.D. Darlington.

5. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
(a) The CIW yearbook.
(b) The Cornell yearbook.
(c) The Cold Spring Harbor yearbook.
(d) The Missouri yearbook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?

2. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?

3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

4. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

5. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

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