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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, A Feeling for the Organism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who described Barbara as having a "green thumb" because everything she did turned into something big?
(a) L.C. Dunn.
(b) Marcus Rhoades.
(c) Her father, Dr. McClintock.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

2. What did Einstein call a deep reverence for nature?
(a) Pantheism thinking.
(b) Serenity thought.
(c) Cosmic religiosity.
(d) Deep ecology.

3. How many parts are in the process of transposition?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. How often did fruit flies give geneticists a new generation to study?
(a) Every 10 days.
(b) Every 20 days.
(c) Every 5 days.
(d) Every 15 days.

5. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cold Spring Harbor.
(c) The University of Edinburgh.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?

3. Lewis Stadler had been at the University of Missouri in Columbia since what year?

4. How many chromosomes did corn or maize have?

5. What was the principle object of interest to cytologists?

(see the answer key)

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