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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the summer of 1931, an invitation from Lewis Stadler brought Barbara where?
(a) The University of Central Missouri.
(b) The University of Missouri.
(c) Webster University.
(d) Missouri State University.

2. In Chapter 1, it is mentioned that immune systems were studied in what animal?
(a) Rats.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

3. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Protein.
(c) Chromatin.
(d) Plasma membrane.

4. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Rollins Emerson.
(b) Lester Sharp.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Thomas Belling.

5. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Dual matched.
(b) Transfused.
(c) Variegated.
(d) Combined.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the first conversation between Evelyn Keller and Barbara McClintock last?

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

3. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?

4. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

5. What was the name of the science that was born in T. H. Morgan's lab?

(see the answer key)

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