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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bragg finally allow Watson to do?
(a) Allow him to work with Pauling to refine his model
(b) Start working on DNA again
(c) Invite Maurice to join Watson on the project
(d) Move to a new lab where he will continue his work on RNA

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

3. Which of the following types of work was Watson enthusiastic about beginning?
(a) Work with the different possible molecular models of DNA
(b) Work with crystallography
(c) Work with Crick on X-ray photographs
(d) Work with X-rays of helices

4. When Watson constructed models of the bases what was the same about a pair?
(a) Shape
(b) Appearance
(c) Number
(d) Size

5. While Watson was assembling pieces of the model, Crick was doing what?
(a) Reading from Pauling's book
(b) Reviewing X-ray images
(c) Making his own models
(d) Adding wire to the existent models

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Watson asked of Delbruck?

2. At what university were both Crick and the author working in the opening chapter?

3. What arrangement was did Watson work out with Markham?

4. Where had Watson moved?

5. Which of the following was a new idea about the life of a scientist to Watson at the end of chapter five?

(see the answer key)

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