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

2. 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) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) The University of Edinburgh.
(d) Cold Spring Harbor.

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

4. What high school did Barbara attend?
(a) Brooklyn High School.
(b) Erasmus Hall High School.
(c) James Madison High School.
(d) Maxwell High School.

5. Who did Barbara write to to arrange an invitation to Cold Springs Harbor?
(a) Marcus Rhoades.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Rollins Emerson.
(d) Esther Parker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?

3. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?

4. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?

5. When it became clear to Barbara that she could no longer stay at Missouri, what did she consider as a possible career?

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