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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. When Barbara was unwilling to accept her failure to see the Neurospora chromosomes, she went outside to sit and meditate under what type of tree?
(a) Eucalyptus.
(b) Weeping Willow.
(c) Pine.
(d) Elm.

2. What does Keller state is a prerequisite for Barbara's extraordinary perspicacity?
(a) Her drive to succeed.
(b) Her willingness to let her brain take over.
(c) Her ultimate knowledge.
(d) Her love for studying.

3. What is one of the most fundamental questions of genetics that was mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) How do genes change in generations?
(b) How are genes important to the world of science?
(c) How do genes make exact copies of themselves?
(d) How do genes make up particular objects?

4. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?
(a) Heredity, development, and evolution.
(b) Heredity, development, and transposition.
(c) Genes, development, and evolution.
(d) Heredity, chromosomes, and evolution.

5. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?
(a) Bass guitar.
(b) Saxaphone.
(c) Piano.
(d) Tenor banjo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

2. In the model that Monod and Jacob proposed, they stated that protein synthesis is not regulated by just the structural gene but by how many other genes?

3. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?

4. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?

5. Which type of RNA contains the information coding for the sequence of amino acids?

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