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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. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?
(a) Division prophase.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Meiosis.

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

3. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?
(a) Warren Weaver.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Harriet Creighton.
(d) T.H. Morgan.

4. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 110.
(b) 90.
(c) 100.
(d) 95.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?

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

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

4. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

5. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?

(see the answer key)

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