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History of Cytogenetics

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Coined the term 'chromosome'

a)

Walter Sutton

b)

Peter Nowell

c)

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer - Hartz

d)

Gregor Mendel

2.

Nowell and Hungerford found the presence of "Philadelphia Chromosome" in what disease/health problem?

a)

Colon Cancer

b)

Anemia

c)

Brain Aneurysm

d)

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

3.

Father of Modern Genetics

a)

Walther Flemming

b)

Gregor Mendel

c)

James Watson

d)

Rosalind Franklin

4.

Formulate the term 'Karyotype'

a)

Grigorii Andreevich Levitsky

b)

Albert Fisher

c)

Jerome Lejeune

d)

Patricia Jacobs

5.

Discovered the Hypotonic Solution

a)

Charles Edmund Ford

b)

John Hamerton

c)

Hsu Tao Chiuh

d)

Torbjörn Caspersson

6.

He founded & described Trisomy 18

a)

Charles Edmund Ford

b)

Peter Nowell

c)

Dr. Klaus Patau

d)

John Hilton Edwards

7.

Elucidated the Molecular structure of DNA

a)

James Watson

b)

Maurice Wilkins

c)

Francis Crick

d)

Linus Pauling

8.

Father of Cytogenetics

a)

Gregor Mendel

b)

Walther Flemming

c)

Walter Sutton

d)

Hans von Winiwarter

9.

A=T, C=G

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Margery W. Shaw

c)

Erwin Chargaff

d)

Murray Llewellyn Barr

10.

Founded & described Trisomy 13

a)

John Hilton Edwards

b)

Maximo E. Drets

c)

Jerome Lejeune

d)

Dr. Klaus Patau