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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. Where are chromosomes found?
(a) In a cell's nucleous.
(b) On a cell's centrosome.
(c) In a cell's spindle.
(d) In a cell's nucleolus.

2. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Division prophase.
(c) Metaphase.
(d) Meiosis.

3. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?
(a) World Oil.
(b) Consolidated Iron Mines.
(c) Rockefeller Group.
(d) Standard Oil.

4. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) DNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Maize studies.
(d) Fruit flies.

5. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?

2. When Barbara was taking a geology final when she was a Junior in college, what couldn't she remember?

3. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

5. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

(see the answer key)

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