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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Career for Women.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1902.

3. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) Transfusion.
(b) The nuclei.
(c) The genetic systems.
(d) The chromatids.

4. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Brooklyn High School.
(b) James Madison High School.
(c) Maxwell High School.
(d) Erasmus Hall High School.

5. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Division prophase.
(c) Metaphase.
(d) Meiosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

3. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

5. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

(see the answer key)

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