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

2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Anneal.
(b) Genderate.
(c) Conjoin.
(d) Fuse.

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

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

5. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Transfused.
(b) Combined.
(c) Variegated.
(d) Dual matched.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?

2. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

3. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?

4. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

5. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?

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