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

2. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 9.
(b) Chromosome 6.
(c) Chromosome 3.
(d) Chromosome 2.

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. After what length of time did Demerec propose to make Barbara's position permanent at Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Two months.
(b) A year.
(c) Ten days.
(d) A week.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

2. How old was Barbara when her name was changed to Barbara?

3. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?

4. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?

5. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

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