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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Transposition.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1925.

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

5. Many mutations that were happening in the maize had never been seen before, and some of these involved gross changes in what?
(a) The generation length.
(b) The nucleolus in the cells of the corn.
(c) The arrangement of the chromosomes.
(d) The productivity of the corn itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?

2. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

3. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?

4. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?

5. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?

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