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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. Among plants in the first crop, there were patterns of variegation so unusual they "could not fail to catch the eye". What was so unusual about these kernels?
(a) They should have been colorless, but there were spots of color.
(b) They should have been all uniform shape, but there were some that were much larger than expected.
(c) They should have all been the same color, but there were four different colors present.
(d) They should have been yellow, but they were brown.

2. What were the names of the flies that were used in studying genetics?
(a) Musca.
(b) Anopheles.
(c) Drosophilia.
(d) Diptera.

3. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleous orange region.
(b) Negative opening region.
(c) Nucleolar organizer region.
(d) Nucleus order regulator.

4. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
(a) The Cold Spring Harbor yearbook.
(b) The Missouri yearbook.
(c) The CIW yearbook.
(d) The Cornell yearbook.

5. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) Chromosomes.
(b) Fruit flies.
(c) Maize studies.
(d) DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

2. It is mentioned in Chapter 7 that in hindsight, most historians would say that the molecular revolution began at what time?

3. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"

4. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?

5. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

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