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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. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?
(a) The length of its generations.
(b) Its genetic composition.
(c) Its ease of study.
(d) The length of its chromosomes.

2. In what year was Barbara's last attempt to explain her work to her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1955.

3. Barbara McClintock sent off a paper entitled "Some Parallels Between Gene Control Systems in Maize and in Bacteria" to where?
(a) American Scientist.
(b) American Naturalist.
(c) Naturalism in America.
(d) The Chicago Journal.

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

5. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?
(a) Milislav Demerec.
(b) Max Delbruck.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?

2. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?

3. Why did Barbara feel bad every time she walked on grass?

4. Barbara suggested that we must have what to "let it come to you"?

5. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

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