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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 year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1932.

2. In what year was Barbara McClintock born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1900.

3. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Mitosis.
(b) Division prophase.
(c) Metaphase.
(d) Meiosis.

4. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Looking at the whole organism.
(b) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(c) Peering at it through a microscope.
(d) Looking at the genetic code.

5. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Eye shape.
(b) Leg thickness.
(c) Wing shape.
(d) Wing color.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute when Barbara received the Guggenheim Fellowship?

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

3. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

4. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

5. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?

(see the answer key)

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