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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Cold Spring Harbor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Neurospora?
(a) A red mold on bread.
(b) A gray mold on fruit.
(c) A green mold on mushrooms.
(d) A orange mold on corn.

2. 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, development, and transposition.
(d) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.

3. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1980.

4. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?
(a) Over seventy.
(b) Over ninety.
(c) Over eighty.
(d) Over sixty.

5. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?
(a) Cornell.
(b) University of Missouri.
(c) Connecticut College for Women.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?

2. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?

3. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

4. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?

5. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?

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