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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. An experimental breeder can tell what a chromosomes is like from doing what?
(a) Seeing diagrams of the particular chromosome.
(b) Peering at it through a microscope.
(c) Looking at the whole organism.
(d) Looking at the genetic code.

2. How does a chemist see chromosomes?
(a) Through a math formula.
(b) As representing a chemical structure and a genetic code.
(c) As very small rod-shaped bodies possibly present in all cells.
(d) As a property of the organism.

3. How many papers did McClintock publish between the years of 1929 and 1931?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

4. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"
(a) Harriet Creighton.
(b) Evelyn Witkin.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Barbara McClintock.

5. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacterial chromosomes contain little, if any what?

2. Who presented the third paper in the 1951 symposium?

3. In the fall of what year did Evelyn Keller drive out to Cold Spring Harbor to speak with Barbara McClintock?

4. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?

5. What did the Dean at the University of Missouri tell Barbara would happen if something happened to Stadler?

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