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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Becoming a Scientist.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who discovered the enormous salivary chromosomes of Drosophila?
(a) J. Lenderberg.
(b) M. Rhoades.
(c) G. Beadle.
(d) T. Painter.

3. What did Barbara McClintock receive her PhD in?
(a) Botany.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Cytology.
(d) Zoology.

4. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Saxaphone.
(b) Tenor banjo.
(c) Piano.
(d) Bass guitar.

5. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(b) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(c) Mendelian Segregation.
(d) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

2. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?

3. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

4. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?

5. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?

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