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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 colorless, but there were spots of color.
(b) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.
(c) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(d) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.

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

3. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?
(a) Fly Guy's Lab.
(b) Guy's Room.
(c) Fly Room.
(d) Fly Lab.

4. What was the term that McClintock phrased that meant a capacity to change positions?
(a) Transposition.
(b) Transferration.
(c) Correspondence.
(d) Permutation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the first chromosomes visible as?

2. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?

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

4. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

5. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

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