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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?
(a) Genes.
(b) Organisms.
(c) Transposed cells.
(d) Second generation chromosomes.

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

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

4. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) L.C. Dunn.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Hugh Gavlin.

5. Who's number of year-round investigators hovered around six and eight?
(a) Cold Spring Harbor.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Barbara have the position of assistant professor?

2. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?

3. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?

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

5. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?

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