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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do scientists categorize catchphrases like "Survival of the fittest" and "Read my lips"?
(a) As memes.
(b) As memories.
(c) As bits.
(d) As bytes.

2. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) Word of wise men.
(b) By legend.
(c) In tribal strongholds.
(d) In the mind.

3. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?
(a) The French telegraph inventors.
(b) Telegraph operators.
(c) Early telephone developers.
(d) African drummers.

4. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?
(a) That they have complex alogarithms.
(b) That they can be compressed to manageable entities.
(c) That they are computable.
(d) That they are not computable.

5. It had long been noted that physical traits were inheritable and that they had something to do with what other human element?
(a) Chromosomes.
(b) DNA.
(c) Amino acids.
(d) Genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

2. What type of information is contained in DNA?

3. Why wasn't Shannon able to teach his computer to play a game?

4. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

5. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?

(see the answer key)

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