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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. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Belief and hope.
(c) Unlikely solutions.
(d) Internal visions.

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 elements.
(b) Jumping elements.
(c) Jumping genes.
(d) Leaping genes.

3. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) T.H. Morgan.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

4. While at the University of Missouri, Barbara was given little encouragement and even another woman was promoted to the rank of associate professor of zoology. What was the woman's name?
(a) Mary Jane Creighton.
(b) Harriet Creighton.
(c) Harriet Guthrie.
(d) Mary Jane Guthrie.

5. In 1936, the University of Missouri offered Barbara what kind of position?
(a) Assistant Graduate Professor.
(b) Graduate Work Professor.
(c) Assistant Professor.
(d) Professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term, dissociation mean?

2. Lew Stadler had been on the faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

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

4. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

5. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?

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