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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. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Five years.

2. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?
(a) The kernel.
(b) The husk.
(c) The stalk.
(d) The silk.

3. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?
(a) $80,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $70,000.

4. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Erasmus Hall High School.
(b) James Madison High School.
(c) Brooklyn High School.
(d) Maxwell High School.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does NOR stand for?

4. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

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

(see the answer key)

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