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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 primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Outcrossing genes.
(b) Combining all genes.
(c) Killing genes that are not yours.
(d) Combining and outcrossing genes.

2. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.
(b) Killing Catholics.
(c) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.
(d) His sermons.

3. What do the females of this same group prefer?
(a) Males that will take care of them.
(b) Males who are attractive.
(c) Intelligent males.
(d) Well-built mounds, instead of poorly constructed mounds.

4. How do species outwit killer viruses?
(a) Sexual reproduction.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) With their brains.
(d) Splitting cells.

5. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.
(a) Female.
(b) Male.
(c) Hermaphrodite.
(d) Female or male.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are out law genes?

2. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

3. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

4. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

5. What kind of study does evolution become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

2. Why is the book named after the Red Queen?

3. What would lead a woman to pick a man based on looks?

4. Why is the history of evolution a never ending arms race?

5. How would a pre-Darwin think explain why giraffes have long necks?

6. How does the book begin and why is it important?

7. To what is the human genome often compared?

8. What secondary quality do men look for in women?

9. What is the lottery theory?

10. From a biologist's point of view, why is sexual reproduction not as successful as asexual?

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