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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of the innovative concepts that Dawkins proposed in "The Selfish Gene"?
(a) A meme.
(b) The genome.
(c) The extra gene.
(d) The repressive gene.

2. 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.

3. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?
(a) Bytes.
(b) Bits.
(c) Data.
(d) Microns.

4. Recognizing a famous painting like the Mona Lisa is attributed to what factor?
(a) Education.
(b) The meme.
(c) Bits.
(d) Memory.

5. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?

2. What are genes?

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

4. How can memes be altered?

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

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