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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?
(a) Picture of crystallized DNA
(b) Poliomyelitis
(c) Structure of proteins
(d) Crystallized helix poliomyelitis

2. Who else did Watson invite to his friend's parents for Christmas?
(a) Sister
(b) Bragg
(c) Rosy
(d) Sister

3. What did Crick help to make when he worked for the government at the beginning of World War II?
(a) Medical advances
(b) Ammunition
(c) Bullet proof vests
(d) Magnetic mines

4. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?
(a) Crystals taken from a mine
(b) Bone degradation
(c) Biological proof that DNA existed
(d) Crystallized DNA

5. Which of the following people wrote the forward?
(a) Sir Lawrence Bragg
(b) Max Perutz
(c) James Watson
(d) Francis Crick

6. Which of the following terms best describes how the meeting went with Rosy, Maurice, Watson and Crick?
(a) Exciting
(b) Realistically
(c) Disappointing
(d) Supportive

7. Where did Watson go for Christmas?
(a) London
(b) Carradale
(c) Stockholm
(d) Cambridge

8. What began to interest Crick after his argument with Sir Lawrence?
(a) Diffraction of X-rays by helical molecules
(b) X-rays of crystallized DNA molecules
(c) DNA
(d) Proton Order and diffraction

9. What is crystallography?
(a) Field responsible for making crystals
(b) Field responsible for crystallizing proteins
(c) Field responsible for breaking apart crystallized proteins
(d) Field responsible for creating X-rays of crystals

10. Whose ideas did Rosy's research ignore?
(a) Watson's
(b) Crick's
(c) Pauling's
(d) Cochran's

11. Which of the following subjects was Herman uninterested in?
(a) Biochemistry
(b) Biology
(c) Chemistry
(d) Genetics

12. On what topic had Bragg, Kendrew and Perutz published a paper?
(a) Crystallographic chains
(b) Helical molecules
(c) Polypeptide chains
(d) Insulin dependent molecules

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

14. By the end of chapter twelve, how many chains had Watson and Crick determined would fit with the X-ray images?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

15. Which of the following characters did Crick discuss his problems with the helix theory with?
(a) Sir Lawrence
(b) Cochran
(c) Watson
(d) Vand

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Watson neglected to do at Rosy's lecture?

2. How did Watson and Crick respond to Bragg when he told them to stop working on the structure of DNA?

3. Which of the following had happened which affected Watson's ability to relocate during his fellowship?

4. On what topic was Rosy's talk?

5. What arrangement was did Watson work out with Markham?

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