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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a cell divides to make a new cell with identical DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Alleles.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Plasmosis.

2. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?
(a) Projections of self-copying molecules into a new dimension.
(b) Multiplications of self-copying molecules.
(c) Machines to protect competing self-copying molecules.
(d) Simple enlargements of self-copying molecules.

3. According to Dawkins, are mistakes in fidelity good or bad?
(a) They are neither good nor bad.
(b) They are always good.
(c) They are always bad.
(d) They are usually good, but sometimes bad.

4. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?
(a) A computer.
(b) A space ship.
(c) A time travel machine.
(d) An energy generator.

5. If two genes normally cooperate, what happens when one gene is missing?
(a) The other gene no longer has any effect.
(b) The other gene still has an effect, but the total result is not the same.
(c) The other gene still causes the same total result but intermittently.
(d) The other gene still causes the same total result.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bee disease that Dawkins mentions in his example?

2. What would molecules that broke down other self-copying molecules and used their parts eventually become?

3. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?

4. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?

5. What response does Dawkins give to the idea that birth control is wrong because it's unnatural?

(see the answer key)

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