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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the interests of most males?
(a) Impregnating as many women as possible.
(b) Being a good father.
(c) Being faithful to one female.
(d) Taking care of their mate and offspring.

2. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.
(a) Homosexual; Homosexual.
(b) Heterosexual; heterosexual.
(c) Homosexual; heterosexual.
(d) Heterosexual; homosexual.

3. Why does the male pine mole visit many different tunnels?
(a) To eat all of the stored food.
(b) To increase the chance of survival.
(c) To see his many wives.
(d) To escape the females.

4. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.
(a) Excessive amounts of sperm.
(b) The ability to support her and future children.
(c) Infidelity in the relationship.
(d) Good genes.

5. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(b) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(c) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(d) The organism decided to self replicate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a powerful force that is influenced by and influences evolution?

2. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?

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

4. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

5. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?

(see the answer key)

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