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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Maurice respond to all of the arguments that went into constructing the DNA model?
(a) Criticized
(b) Debated
(c) Accepted
(d) Refuted

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

3. Why did Watson and Crick purchase a copy of Pauling's book on chemical bonding?
(a) It contained information they needed to build a model of DNA
(b) It had information in it about Pauling's assistant Rosy
(c) It had a foreward written by Dorothy Hodgkin, a leading researcher into crystallography
(d) It had a model of DNA in it

4. What fantasy did Watson have for how he would become involved in his work?
(a) Wilkins would become his sister's suitor
(b) Watson would transfer his postgraduate fellowship to Wilkins
(c) Watson would show Wilkins his crystallized images
(d) Watson would develop a new biochemistry technique

5. What did Crick move on to work on after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
(a) Helix structures
(b) Nothing, he stopped working altogether
(c) Crystallography
(d) His PhD thesis

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Maurice and Rosy's working relationship?

2. Why did Watson have to leave the estate he was staying at over Christmas?

3. What did Wilkin's x-rays show?

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

5. Where did Watson see Chargaff for the second time but they did not speak?

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