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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleolar organizer region.
(b) Nucleus order regulator.
(c) Negative opening region.
(d) Nucleous orange region.

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

4. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1923.

5. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The newborn decade.
(b) The climactic decade.
(c) The evolving decade.
(d) The discovery decade.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

3. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

4. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?

5. When Barbara's father made an unofficial visit Frank Hanson concerning his daughter, he was currently working for what company as an industrial surgeon?

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