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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 first name of Barbara's mother?
(a) Rose.
(b) Sue.
(c) Marie.
(d) Sara.

2. What position was Barbara McClintock elected to in 1939?
(a) Director of the Natural Sciences Division.
(b) President of the National Research Council Fellowship.
(c) President of the Genetics Society of America.
(d) Vice President of the Genetics Society of America.

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

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1881.

5. What is Neurospora?
(a) A gray mold on fruit.
(b) A orange mold on corn.
(c) A red mold on bread.
(d) A green mold on mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for the process of synapsis?

2. What was the name of T.H. Morgan's single laboratory at Columbia University?

3. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?

4. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

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

(see the answer key)

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