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

2. Who was the Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1937?
(a) Ross Harrison.
(b) George Beadle.
(c) T.H. Morgan.
(d) Harriet Creighton.

3. In what year was the Recent Advances in Cytology published?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1931.

4. 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 evolution.
(d) Heredity, development, and transposition.

5. What did Barbara think wasn't solvable, but was "merely a symbol"?
(a) Chromosomes.
(b) Cells.
(c) Genes.
(d) Maize kernals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?

2. Where are chromosomes found?

3. 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?

4. How did Evelyn Witkin say she learned from Barbara and developed her own understanding from her?

5. Who wrote the book, Embryology and Genetics?

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