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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following best describes how Watson and Crick felt after Rosy and Maurice left?
(a) The same as they had felt before they came to review the model
(b) Despondent
(c) More productive
(d) Excited about continuing
2. Which of the following subjects did Watson avoid during his graduate work?
(a) Genetics
(b) Biology
(c) Chemisty
(d) Biochemistry
3. Why did Watson and Crick purchase a copy of Pauling's book on chemical bonding?
(a) It had information in it about Pauling's assistant Rosy
(b) It had a model of DNA in it
(c) It contained information they needed to build a model of DNA
(d) It had a foreward written by Dorothy Hodgkin, a leading researcher into crystallography
4. Where did the Fellowship Board indicate Watson could transfer?
(a) Biochemistry with Markham
(b) Crystallography in Stockhom
(c) Cell physiology lab in Stockholm
(d) Crystallography lab in Cambridge
5. What did Watson and Crick decide they would need in order to move forward?
(a) A fresh start
(b) New X-rays
(c) A new colleague
(d) A new model
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does NOT describe Pauling as seen through Watson's eyes?
2. What did Watson study after told to stop working on the model of DNA?
3. How does DNA carry information?
4. Which of the following is the best definition of the term helix?
5. Where did Watson and Francis go for the weekend after Rosy's lecture?
Short Essay Questions
1. How many bases are there in DNA?
2. What concerned Maurice about Linus?
3. What does Watson's new informaiton about DNA lead to him to question?
4. What was Watson's breakthrough an implication for?
5. How did Watson and Crick get Rosy's measurements at their Cambridge lab?
6. Why were the crystallized images important?
7. What new information was revealed when Pauling appeared unexpectedly at the meeting?
8. What statement did Rosy make about the idea that helices were the answer to the structure of DNA?
9. What would Watson and Crick have done if Maurice had told them it bothered him that they were working on the structure of DNA?
10. What did Watson attribute much of their success to?
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