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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. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?
(a) Nine.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Five.

2. What is another word for the process of synapsis?
(a) Metaphase.
(b) Conjugation.
(c) Duplication.
(d) Transfusion.

3. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Edinburgh.
(d) Cold Spring Harbor.

4. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1935.

5. 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) Transfusion treat.
(c) Barbara plants.
(d) Ring chromosome plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. One day, why did Barbara climb the side of a building and let herself in a window?

2. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

3. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?

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

5. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?

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