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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. DNA is made up of of how many different nucleotides?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

2. What time of memory is most limited?
(a) Repressed memory.
(b) Childhood memory.
(c) Long term memory.
(d) Short term memory.

3. Norbert Weiner developed a theory that had implications for the understanding of what system of the human body which might be thought of as a system of switches and signals.
(a) The artillery system.
(b) The respiratory system.
(c) The nervous system.
(d) The circulatory system.

4. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?
(a) They are a kind of code for constructing an human cells.
(b) They are a kind of code for identifying an organism.
(c) They are a kind of marker for cell multification.
(d) They are a kind of code for constructing an organism.

5. How many years ago was the first language established?
(a) Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
(b) Between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago.
(c) 50,000 years ago.
(d) 100,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

2. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?

3. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

4. What culture was the first to use a written language?

5. Who suggested that the meaning of the word "entropy" mean the opposite of what it was originally, to describe the part of energy which was available to be converted into work?

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