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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes the events at the meeting in Paris?
(a) Surprising
(b) Problem solving
(c) Revealing
(d) Uneventful

2. Which of the following describes why Francis's wife was happy for him?
(a) She saw that he was becoming good friends with Watson
(b) She realized he had had an important breakthrough
(c) She totally understood all of his work
(d) She knew his long hours would soon be over

3. Where did Watson and Crick meet Chargaff?
(a) They never met
(b) Stockholm
(c) United States
(d) Cambridge

4. Why was Watson trying to make crystallographic X-rays of TMV?
(a) To show that TMV had DNA
(b) To show that the work was worthwhile
(c) To showTMV had helically stacked protein
(d) To show that RNA was the same as DNA

5. How did Watson and Crick respond to Bragg when he told them to stop working on the structure of DNA?
(a) Didn't try to change his decision
(b) Worked in the lab on the problem against his directive
(c) Tried to convince him to change his mind
(d) Begged him to be allowed to continue to work on the problem

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best term for chains of nucleotides?

2. Who was taken with Watson's sister?

3. What was the problem with the idea that the bases were pairs?

4. Which of the following terms best describes how Watson felt about chemistry BEFORE meeting Wilkins?

5. What did Watson and Crick hope in regards to this new structure of DNA?

(see the answer key)

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