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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 what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1925.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
(a) Belief and hope.
(b) Internal visions.
(c) Persistence.
(d) Unlikely solutions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?

2. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?

3. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?

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

5. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?

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