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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 discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?
(a) The discovery of the giant salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(b) The discovery of giant kernal change chromosomes in maize.
(c) The discovery of the small salivary gland chromosomes in Drosophila.
(d) The discovery of small kernal change chromosomes in maize.

2. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1943.

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

4. Chromosomes became shorter and thicker during the first stage of what?
(a) Division prophase.
(b) Metaphase.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Meiosis.

5. How does an anatomist see chromosomes?
(a) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(b) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(c) As a property of the organism.
(d) Through a math formula.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years later was it when Barbara made her second presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium?

2. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

3. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?

4. In A Short History of Genetics, the decade preceding World War II was described as what decade of classical genetics?

5. Who was quoted as saying, "By God, that woman is either crazy or a genius."?

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