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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 is the advantage of using quantum particles in the place of bits?
(a) A quantum computer that can have many states at once.
(b) A quantum computer could store more information.
(c) A quantum computer would be more efficient.
(d) A quantum computer could process data much faster.

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

3. What type of information is contained in DNA?
(a) Information that is passed from generation to generation.
(b) Information that is limited to the surrounding cells.
(c) Information key to survival.
(d) Information that is unique to that organism.

4. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its innate energy.
(c) Its strength.
(d) Its shape.

5. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?
(a) The same as computer science.
(b) The study of Internet crime.
(c) The study of robotics.
(d) The study of the relationship between man and machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chaitin propose using to express a computable number into another form?

2. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?

3. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?

4. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?

5. Where is DNA found?

Short Essay Questions

1. The connection of information with entropy and the physical realm was important to what physics discipline?

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

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

4. What was discovered through the study of thermodynamics about the movement of energy?

5. What has research shown about entangled particles and the transference of information?

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

7. What makes a number "computable?"

8. What was mathematician Gregory Chatin's concept on entropy?

9. What is the relationship between man and his memes?

10. What was found to be the make-up of DNA and what did these properties allow?

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