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

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

3. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1931.

4. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a scientist.
(b) He was a fish dealer.
(c) He was a baker.
(d) He was a farmer.

5. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?

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

3. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

4. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?

5. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?

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