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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Grid and network.
(b) Circuit and grid.
(c) A transmitter and a receiver.
(d) Two relay switches.

2. Eliminating noise in Shannon's model meant looking at language in terms of what factor?
(a) Probability.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Frequency.

3. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(b) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.
(c) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(d) She didn't want to embarrass her father.

4. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?
(a) They are a kind of code for constructing an human cells.
(b) They are a kind of marker for cell multification.
(c) They are a kind of code for identifying an organism.
(d) They are a kind of code for constructing an organism.

5. How was the telephone superior to the telegraph?
(a) Ease of use, no need for encoding of the message, and its availability.
(b) Anyone could use a phone.
(c) It was less expensive.
(d) It was the preferred means of communications by government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

2. How does heat travel?

3. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?

4. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?

5. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?

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