[3] It was likely Moore's suggestion in the 1930s that influenced Lester Sharp and Franz Schrader to coin the term kinetochore, which refers to a genetic structure key to chromosome congression during metazoan mitosis.

Moore received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1952; he and his wife spent a year in Australia using cross-fertilization to study frog speciation.

[4] No longer a department chair, Moore continued teaching at Columbia until 1968 when he was hired by University of California, Riverside (UCR).

With the wide implementation of BSCS, the yellow version sold two million copies and was adapted for use in 11 different countries.

[4] His last publication, From Genesis to Genetics, was written as a repudiation of efforts to replace the science curriculum with biblical literalism.