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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. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1951 was on what?
(a) Evolution and Genes.
(b) Genes and Transposition.
(c) Transposition and Mutations.
(d) Genes and Mutations.

2. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?
(a) $90,000.
(b) $70,000.
(c) $80,000.
(d) $50,000.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Grateful applause.
(b) Stunned awkwardness.
(c) Loud cheers.
(d) Stony silence.

4. Who wrote A Short History of Genetics?
(a) Lewis Stadler.
(b) Hugh Gavlin.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

5. The differences that were studied in fruit flies had to do with their eye color and what else?
(a) Wing shape.
(b) Leg thickness.
(c) Eye shape.
(d) Wing color.

Short Answer Questions

1. What discovery was a great boost to cytological analysis in 1933?

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

3. What characteristically induces many chromosome breaks?

4. What are considered to be the mainstay of genetic research?

5. What is the usual process by which cells duplicate themselves?

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