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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. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

2. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?
(a) Through a math formula.
(b) As a property of the organism.
(c) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(d) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.

3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

4. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Transposition.
(b) Permutation.
(c) Transferration.
(d) Correspondence.

5. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Charles Burnham.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) George Beadle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?

2. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

3. In what year was Barbara McClintock elected Vice President of the Genetics Society of America?

4. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?

5. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?

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