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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, 1936-1941: University of Missouri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?
(a) Because she was displaying to her students that you can't always follow the norm.
(b) Because she was trying to catch a cat.
(c) Because she had forgot her keys.
(d) Because she wanted to surprise a friend.

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

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

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

5. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school did Barbara attend?

2. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?

3. What profession did Barbara's father have?

4. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?

5. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

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