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

2. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?
(a) Director of the Natural Sciences Division.
(b) President of the National Research Council Fellowship.
(c) President of the Genetics Society of America.
(d) Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.

3. How long did it take for Barbara to get from her first clues to her final interpretation dealing with transposition?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Four years.

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

5. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?
(a) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.
(b) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(c) They should have been colorless, but there were spots of color.
(d) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?

2. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

3. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

4. Who was the co-author with McClintock on the paper that provided conclusive evidence for the chromosomal basis of genetics?

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

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