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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty-five.

2. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) George Beadle.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

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

4. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1931.

5. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?
(a) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

2. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?

3. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

4. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?

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

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