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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the library that once held all known information?
(a) It was buried during an eruption of Etna.
(b) It was abandoned at Oxford when it was felt that there was too much information to store.
(c) It was destroyed when Sparta burned.
(d) It was burned when Alexandria was conquered.

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

3. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?
(a) Figure eight.
(b) Double helix.
(c) Infinity symbol.
(d) Double spiral.

4. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?
(a) It was a code and it could be deciphered mathematically.
(b) It was a code and it could be developed to duplicate.
(c) It was dynamic and ever-changing.
(d) It was a code and it could be cloned.

5. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?
(a) In an organized line.
(b) In a jumble.
(c) Constantly and randomly movement.
(d) In an arc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?

2. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?

3. What did Shannon bring to one of his meetings?

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

5. What comment did IBM researcher Charles Bennet make about the amount of information in a message?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gregory Chaitin characterize random numbers?

2. What was found to be the make-up of DNA and what did these properties allow?

3. When was the existence of DNA discovered and by whom?

4. What was zoologist's Richard Dawkins' theory on DNA?

5. What was discovered through the study of thermodynamics about the movement of energy?

6. When was the term "cybernetics" coined and what meaning was attached to it?

7. The connection of information with entropy and the physical realm was important to what physics discipline?

8. What are examples of memes?

9. What was Erwin Schrodinger's theory about "genes"?

10. What has research shown about entangled particles and the transference of information?

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