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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Same-sex Reproduction.
(c) Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction.

2. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Death and destruction.
(b) Parasites and diseases.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Killing ones own organisms.

3. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?
(a) It is able to always kill its prey.
(b) The fast gazelle survives and reproduces, thus spreading its genes.
(c) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.
(d) The gazelle gets caught.

4. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?
(a) Male attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(b) Female attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(c) Male attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(d) Female attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.

5. Who created the tangled bank theory?
(a) Leigh Van Valen.
(b) Graham Bell.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?

2. What have mound building skills become?

3. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

4. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?

5. Who developed the Red Queen theory?

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