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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Transposition.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Hugh Gavlin.
2. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 3.
(b) Chromosome 2.
(c) Chromosome 6.
(d) Chromosome 9.
3. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?
(a) That they would promote her to Stadler's job.
(b) That Stadler would try to get her to leave.
(c) That they would have to fire her.
(d) That she could take the Dean's place after he retired.
4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1872.
5. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Negative opening region.
(b) Nucleous orange region.
(c) Nucleolar organizer region.
(d) Nucleus order regulator.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What is another word for the process of synapsis?
3. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?
4. When the National Academy of Sciences elected Barbara McClintock as a member, how many other women before her had held that particular honor?
5. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
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