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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is Watson's interest?
(a) What is a gene?
(b) What are the crystallized images?
(c) Where is DNA stored?
(d) How does DNA crystallize?

2. Which of the following had Pauling partially solved?
(a) Picture of crystallized DNA
(b) Crystallized helix poliomyelitis
(c) Structure of proteins
(d) Poliomyelitis

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

4. Which of the following terms best describes how Watson felt about chemistry BEFORE meeting Wilkins?
(a) Lukewarm
(b) Excited
(c) Unmoved
(d) Depressed

5. Which of the following subjects was Herman uninterested in?
(a) Biology
(b) Biochemistry
(c) Chemistry
(d) Genetics

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Watson is uninterested and unexcited?

3. In what language were many of the lectures given that Watson attended?

4. How many people does the preface indicate were involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA?

5. Who first excited Watson about using x-rays to study DNA?

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