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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, A Different Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1930.

3. According to Gerald Horton, as Saint Thomas saw seraphim and Jean Perrin saw atoms, who saw electrons?
(a) Millikan.
(b) McClintock.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Roughe.

4. Evelyn Keller likens different "languages" in science from an example of Freeman Dyson, who was an "interpreter" for who?
(a) Barbara McClintock.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Niels Bohr.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. The subject of cytogenetics is about the relationship between the chromosomes and what?
(a) Transfusion.
(b) The nuclei.
(c) The genetic systems.
(d) The chromatids.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of nuclear division do cells undergo?

2. What were the first chromosomes visible as?

3. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?

4. Who said, "I've known a lot of famous scientists. But the only one I thought really was a genius was McClintock"?

5. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?

(see the answer key)

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