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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following people wrote the forward?
(a) Francis Crick
(b) Sir Lawrence Bragg
(c) Max Perutz
(d) James Watson

3. What could be used to rule out some false starts of potential DNA structures?
(a) Nucleotides
(b) 3-dimensional figures of DNA
(c) X-ray pictures of DNA crystals
(d) Binding agents

4. What was Watson's main scientific interest?
(a) The scientific process
(b) RNA
(c) Human relations
(d) DNA

5. How many types of nucleotides are in DNA?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 4
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following people was the solution to Watson being able to study crystallography?

4. Why was Watson kicked out of his rooming house?

5. Which of the following does NOT describe Pauling as seen through Watson's eyes?

(see the answer key)

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