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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 year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1943.

2. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?
(a) The discovery decade.
(b) The newborn decade.
(c) The climactic decade.
(d) The evolving decade.

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

4. In what year was the Sixth European Nucleolar Workshop held?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1973.

5. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Barbara ask for a set of tools?

2. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?

3. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?

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

5. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?

(see the answer key)

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