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

2. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?
(a) Harriet Creighton.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) George Beadle.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

3. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?
(a) Radiation genetics.
(b) Cytogenetics.
(c) Botony.
(d) Mycogenetics

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

5. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Transposition.
(b) Transferration.
(c) Correspondence.
(d) Permutation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

2. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?

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

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

5. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

(see the answer key)

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