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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) How they got to be the way they are.
(b) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(c) Where humans live.
(d) Why humans are the way they are.
2. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To study asexual reproduction.
(b) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(c) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(d) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
3. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Parasites and diseases.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Death and destruction.
(d) Killing ones own organisms.
4. Who created the tangled bank theory?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Graham Bell.
(d) Leigh Van Valen.
5. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(b) The organism decided to self replicate.
(c) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(d) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is sexual selection?
2. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.
3. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?
4. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
5. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
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