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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is expected to come speak at a conference at the end of chapter sixteen?
(a) Pauling
(b) Rosy
(c) Crick
(d) Maurice

2. Where had Watson gotten the structures for the bases?
(a) From Watson's own research into bacteria
(b) From Pauling's research
(c) From Rosy's photographs
(d) Out of a chemistry book

3. Where did the Fellowship Board indicate Watson could transfer?
(a) Cell physiology lab in Stockholm
(b) Crystallography in Stockhom
(c) Biochemistry with Markham
(d) Crystallography lab in Cambridge

4. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?
(a) Bone degradation
(b) Crystals taken from a mine
(c) Biological proof that DNA existed
(d) Crystallized DNA

5. What subject did Crick study as an undergraduate?
(a) Chemistry
(b) Biochemistry
(c) Biology
(d) Physics

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrived at Cambridge as a student?

2. Which of the following is the best definition of the term helix?

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

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

5. Which of the following words best describes how the authors of the chemistry book had chosen the structures of the bases?

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