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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Pauling discover his ?-helix structure?
(a) By taking atoms and gluing them together with photons
(b) By taking X-rays and placing them on top of each other
(c) By fitting X-rays together into specific groups
(d) By fitting together models of groups of atoms that liked to link together

2. What did Crick and Watson have in common?
(a) Protein structure knowledge
(b) Same amount of siblings
(c) Enthusiasm for DNA
(d) Knowledge of crystallography

3. What did Crick move on to work on after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
(a) Helix structures
(b) Nothing, he stopped working altogether
(c) His PhD thesis
(d) Crystallography

4. In what language were many of the lectures given that Watson attended?
(a) English
(b) Italian
(c) French
(d) Latin

5. What did Watson and Crick decide they would need in order to move forward?
(a) New X-rays
(b) A fresh start
(c) A new model
(d) A new colleague

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?

2. What was Maurice going to return to Watson?

3. Which of the following terms best describes how the English scientists felt about the United States refusing to allow Pauling to travel to London to speak at the conference?

4. What could be used to rule out some false starts of potential DNA structures?

5. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?

(see the answer key)

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