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

2. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

3. 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) Harriet Guthrie.
(b) Mary Jane Guthrie.
(c) Mary Jane Creighton.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

4. Darlington described that in an adaptive hierarchy the chromosomes always come first. What comes second?
(a) Genes.
(b) Organisms.
(c) Transposed cells.
(d) Second generation chromosomes.

5. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?
(a) Esther Parker.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) Evelyn Witkin.
(d) Joshua Lederberg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?

3. Keller states in Chapter 12 that good science cannot proceed without what?

4. What is Neurospora?

5. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"

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