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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Weak and strong genes.
(b) Genes too similar to their parents.
(c) Weak genes.
(d) A different bag of genes from their parents.

2. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(b) A new way for humans to mate.
(c) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(d) Why people are attracted to one another.

3. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) It is not less risky.
(b) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(c) There will be no one competing.
(d) All the clones will be healthy.

4. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.
(a) An attempt.
(b) An inefficient means.
(c) Not able.
(d) Not an easy way.

5. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) Competition between friends.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) A slow process.
(d) How organisms become better over generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the tangled bank theory?

2. What is the tangled bank theory?

3. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

4. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?

5. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?

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