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

2. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Anneal.
(b) Genderate.
(c) Conjoin.
(d) Fuse.

3. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) C.D. Darlington.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

4. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?
(a) Decisions about the department.
(b) Faculty meetings.
(c) Class time with other professors.
(d) Weekend get-togethers.

5. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Thomas Belling.
(b) Rollins Emerson.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Lester Sharp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

2. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?

3. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

4. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?

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

(see the answer key)

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