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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Transposition.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?
(a) Mendelian Segregation.
(b) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
(c) The Theory of Mendelian Heredity.
(d) Medelian Mode of Inheritance.

2. Who was Dean of Liberal Arts at Missouri in 1940?
(a) W.C. Curtis.
(b) Lewis Stadler.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Frank Hanson.

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

4. What was the word or words that Barbara used in the book to describe a plant that was part dominant and part recessive?
(a) Variegated.
(b) Transfused.
(c) Combined.
(d) Dual matched.

5. Barbara McClintock worked in Cold Spring Harbor since what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?

2. What was the first name of Barbara's father?

3. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?

4. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?

5. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?

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