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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 is another word for the process of synapsis?
(a) Duplication.
(b) Conjugation.
(c) Metaphase.
(d) Transfusion.

2. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) Roughe.
(b) Einstein.
(c) McClintock.
(d) Millikan.

3. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Looking at the whole organism.
(b) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(c) Peering at it through a microscope.
(d) Looking at the genetic code.

4. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Genes.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Cells.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?

5. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

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