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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. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The newborn decade.
(b) The climactic decade.
(c) The evolving decade.
(d) The discovery decade.

2. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?
(a) "One gene-two enzymes".
(b) "One gene-one enzyme".
(c) "Two genes-two enzymes".
(d) "Two genes-one enzyme".

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

4. Where are chromosomes found?
(a) On a cell's centrosome.
(b) In a cell's nucleolus.
(c) In a cell's nucleous.
(d) In a cell's spindle.

5. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?

2. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

3. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

4. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

5. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

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