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

2. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?
(a) Division prophase.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Meiosis.

3. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Kansas.
(d) South Dakota.

4. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?
(a) He was her priest.
(b) He was her thesis advisor.
(c) He helped pay for a new bike for Barbara.
(d) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.

5. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Charles Burnham.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) George Beadle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

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

3. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?

4. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?

5. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

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