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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?
(a) Nuclear power.
(b) X Rays.
(c) Sonic booms.
(d) Nuclear division.

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1905.

3. Both of the grandparents on Barbara's mother side could be traced back to what?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Boston Tea Party.
(c) The Mayflower.
(d) The Speedwell.

4. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 110.
(b) 100.
(c) 95.
(d) 90.

5. What was Demerec summing up by the words, "Ten years ago they were visualized as fixed units with precise boundaries?"
(a) Cells.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Chromosomes.
(d) Genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school did Barbara attend?

2. What was the name of Edward Tatum and George Beadle's hypothesis?

3. 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?

4. Who asked Barbara how she could have worked "for two years without knowing what was going to come out?"

5. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

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