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

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

3. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?
(a) Double helix.
(b) Figure eight.
(c) Infinity symbol.
(d) Double spiral.

4. Why do scientists consider the belief in God a meme?
(a) Most scientists are atheists.
(b) Because all beliefs are contained in memes.
(c) Memes control reactions to external influences.
(d) It has been passed from person to person.

5. What can the amount of information in a message be expressed in?
(a) By the bits it contains.
(b) By the algorithm that produces it.
(c) By its integral number.
(d) By the computation that produces it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wikipedia differ from the Encyclopedia Britannica?

2. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

3. What did Charles Bennet prove about energy cost?

4. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?

5. Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of entropy to describe what group?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "memes" as first proposed by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene"?

2. What comparison does the author make to the famous library at Alexandria?

3. What did Dawkins attribute the belief in God to?

4. What are examples of memes?

5. What are major differences between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

6. What was Claude Shannon referring to by the term "entropy" and what was its importance?

7. What was zoologist's Richard Dawkins' theory on DNA?

8. What fundamental problem is inherent in the observation of quantum particles?

9. What did psychologist George Miller discover about a person's ability to remember?

10. When was the existence of DNA discovered and by whom?

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