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

2. In 1941, how many geneticists did Cold Spring Harbor draw?
(a) Over sixty.
(b) Over eighty.
(c) Over ninety.
(d) Over seventy.

3. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

4. What kind of work did Barbara's mother do contribute and make money?
(a) She gave piano lessons.
(b) She taught dance.
(c) She taught cooking classes.
(d) She gave violin lessons.

5. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Genes, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and transposition.
(c) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and evolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?

3. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

4. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

5. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?

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