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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are people able to recall the name of a tune?
(a) They associate music with certain events.
(b) People love music.
(c) It makes them remember good times.
(d) Recollection of tunes is stored in memes.

2. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?
(a) Cellular and anatomical biologies.
(b) Molecular and evolutionary biologies.
(c) Biology and physics.
(d) Medical research and genetics.

3. What is DNA also known as?
(a) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(b) Amino acid.
(c) Defining neutrino acid.
(d) Cells.

4. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(b) To catalog the entire English language.
(c) To alphabetize all words.
(d) To limit the work to only proper English.

5. What type of information is contained in DNA?
(a) Information that is unique to that organism.
(b) Information that is passed from generation to generation.
(c) Information that is limited to the surrounding cells.
(d) Information key to survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Bennet went on to design what method for passing information?

2. What time of memory is most limited?

3. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?

4. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

5. What is the Internet without indexing?

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