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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its chromosomes.
(b) The length of its generations.
(c) Its genetic composition.
(d) Its ease of study.

2. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?
(a) McClintock corn.
(b) Ring chromosome plants.
(c) Transfusion treat.
(d) Barbara plants.

3. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) Iowa.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Kansas.

4. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?
(a) Forty-five minutes.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Two hours.

5. What does the term, dissociation mean?
(a) Complete disappearance of a part.
(b) Controlled breakage.
(c) The processing of materials into a different material.
(d) Combining into larger masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?

2. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

3. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?

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

5. What date was Barbara McClintock born?

(see the answer key)

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