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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is crystallography?
(a) Field responsible for making crystals
(b) Field responsible for breaking apart crystallized proteins
(c) Field responsible for creating X-rays of crystals
(d) Field responsible for crystallizing proteins

2. Which of the following terms describes how Watson felt about working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge?
(a) Hated it
(b) Disliked it
(c) Liked it
(d) Love it

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

4. Which of the following people was the solution to Watson being able to study crystallography?
(a) Herman
(b) Pauling
(c) Kalckar
(d) Perutz

5. Which of the following terms best describes the human dilemma of deciding to work against your colleague or behind their back?
(a) Ethics
(b) Realism
(c) Plagerism
(d) Stealing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes how Watson responded to Pauling's journal articles?

3. Which of the following was NOT a reason that Watson was disheartened with Naples?

4. How did Pauling discover his ?-helix structure?

5. Which of the following characters was on the edge of being fired?

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