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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DNA carry information?
(a) Order of the nucleotides
(b) Binding of the nucleotides
(c) Structure of DNA
(d) Multiple types of nucleotides

2. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?
(a) He concentrates on the wrong things
(b) He drinks
(c) He looks for a woman to keep him company
(d) He stops working

3. Which of the following is the best definition of phages?
(a) Bacteria which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material
(b) DNA
(c) Germs which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material
(d) Viruses which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material

4. In what year did the author meet Crick?
(a) 1945
(b) 1928
(c) 1951
(d) 1963

5. What arrangement was did Watson work out with Markham?
(a) To address his need to study crystallography
(b) To move to Cambridge
(c) To pretend to work with him
(d) To help him convince his Fellowship committee to allow him to relocate to Cambridge

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?

2. Which of the following subjects did Watson avoid during his graduate work?

3. What is the purpose of the preface in this text?

4. Which of the following was a new idea about the life of a scientist to Watson at the end of chapter five?

5. Where did the Fellowship Board indicate Watson could transfer?

(see the answer key)

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