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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 are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?
(a) Cells.
(b) Genes.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Mutations.

2. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Leaping genes.
(b) Leaping elements.
(c) Jumping genes.
(d) Jumping elements.

3. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Cells.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

4. What discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?
(a) The discovery of the small salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(b) The discovery of the giant salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(c) The discovery of small kernal change chromosomes in maize.
(d) The discovery of giant kernal change chromosomes in maize.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Neurospora?

2. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?

3. In Chapter 7, Esther Parker had bought a farm that was located how many miles north of Ithaca?

4. Who said, "She is sore at the world because of her conviction that she would have a much freer scientific opportunity if she were a man"?

5. What did Barbara's uncle do for a living?

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