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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose work did Crick believe was a key to understanding DNA?
(a) Chargraff's work
(b) Rosy's work
(c) Pauling's work
(d) Watson's work

2. What had the Cavendish lab recently discovered?
(a) A new kind of X-ray tube
(b) A model of DNA and RNA
(c) The structure of DNA
(d) The structure of RNA

3. Which of the following characteristics best describes how Watson viewed the conference in London?
(a) Uneventful
(b) Enlightening
(c) Exciting
(d) Rigid

4. Which two components of DNA did Chargaff find had the same number of molecules?
(a) adenine and thymine
(b) guanine and adenine
(c) guanine and thymine
(d) cytosine and thymine

5. What event diffused the tension and heat between Rosy and Watson?
(a) Watson walking out of the lab
(b) Maurice entering the lab
(c) Rosy tearing up Pauling's work
(d) Rosy assaulting Watson

6. What happened when King's lab began comparing their experimental results to the double helix structure?
(a) They supported the model
(b) They refuted the model
(c) They found a major flaw
(d) They debated it's accuracy

7. How did Rosy feel about the new model?
(a) Debated
(b) Supported
(c) Refuted
(d) Criticized

8. Which of the following words best describes how the authors of the chemistry book had chosen the structures of the bases?
(a) After much indepth research
(b) Scientific models
(c) Crystallographic photographics
(d) Arbitrarily

9. Where was Pauling's lab?
(a) London
(b) Pasadena
(c) Stockholm
(d) New Jersey

10. Why did Watson believe that DNA would be a two-chain?
(a) Pauling's model was wrong
(b) Crick had found 2 chains in previous research
(c) Picture showed 2 chains
(d) Things in biology come in pairs

11. What was the fundamental flaw in Linus Pauling's model of DNA?
(a) He could not identify the number of helixes
(b) The phosphate molecules were ionized
(c) The phosphate molecules were not ionized
(d) He relayed that there were four helixes

12. What had Rosy surrounded DNA with in the B photograph?
(a) Ice
(b) RNA
(c) Crystals
(d) Water

13. Where was Pauling held up when he was on his way to speak at the conference?
(a) Stockholm
(b) London
(c) Washington, DC
(d) Airport

14. What had Watson asked of Delbruck?
(a) To be sure and tell Pauling
(b) To display the model at Cal-Tech
(c) To spread the word throughout the scientific community
(d) Not to tell Pauling about the new model

15. Which of the following is the best definition of the term untenable?
(a) Justified
(b) Empty
(c) Able to be possible
(d) Unable to be defended

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Rosy when she died?

2. Who arrived at Cambridge as a student?

3. How much progress did Crick make?

4. Who did Watson go to tell about Rosy's B photograph?

5. What did Bragg finally allow Watson to do?

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