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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Grid and network.
(b) Two relay switches.
(c) A transmitter and a receiver.
(d) Circuit and grid.

2. What is DNA also known as?
(a) Cells.
(b) Amino acid.
(c) Defining neutrino acid.
(d) Deoxyribonucleic acid.

3. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Inca Culture.
(c) The Egyptians.
(d) The Italians.

4. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?
(a) Office assistants.
(b) Secretaries.
(c) Call center personnel.
(d) Switchboard operators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

2. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

3. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

4. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?

5. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

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