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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) Nucleous orange region.
(c) Nucleus order regulator.
(d) Nucleolar organizer region.

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

3. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?
(a) Assistant Professor.
(b) Assistant Graduate Professor.
(c) Graduate Work Professor.
(d) Professor.

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

5. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Mendelian Segregation.
(b) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.
(c) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?

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

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

4. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?

5. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

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