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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. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.
(b) That they would have to fire her.
(c) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.
(d) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.

2. Who was the President of the Carnegie Institution that Demerec urged Barbara to go talk to?
(a) Salvador Luria.
(b) Vannevar Bush.
(c) Charles B. Davenport.
(d) Marcus Rhoades.

3. In what year did Cornell appoint its first woman assistant professor in something other than home economics?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1952.

4. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) McClintock.
(b) Roughe.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Millikan.

5. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?
(a) Genes.
(b) Cells.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Chromosomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

2. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

3. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?

4. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

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

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