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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition of phages?
(a) Viruses which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material
(b) Germs which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material
(c) DNA
(d) Bacteria which some scientists suspected were naked genetic material

2. Why did Watson have to leave the estate he was staying at over Christmas?
(a) To accept a new job
(b) To meet Crick to work on their project related to the structure of DNA
(c) To return to work
(d) To speak at a meeting in London

3. What did Watson study after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
(a) Chemistry
(b) Biology
(c) His PhD thesis
(d) Biochemistry

4. Whom did Watson compare Crick to when talking to Delbruck?
(a) Rosy
(b) Maurice
(c) Sir Lawrence
(d) Pauling

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered Watson a job at Cal-Tech?

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

3. When would Watson and Crick be able to understand the configuration of inorganic ions?

4. Which of the following characters didn't believe that helices were the answer to the structure of DNA?

5. Which of the following did Odile NOT prefer?

(see the answer key)

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