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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Interlude: A Sketch of the Terrain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?
(a) China.
(b) Austria.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

2. What year was it that Barbara requested a leave of absence without pay and left Missouri?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1941.

3. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Her father, Dr. McClintock.

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

5. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) DNA.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Fruit flies.
(d) Maize studies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?

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

4. In what year did McClintock complete her graduate work?

5. Ribosomes are the what of protein synthesis?

(see the answer key)

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