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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of success does evolution care about?
(a) Sexual rather than survival success.
(b) Survival success.
(c) Biological evolution.
(d) Natural selection.

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

3. What is the lottery theory?
(a) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.
(b) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(c) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(d) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.

4. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.
(a) Reason.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Right.

5. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Viruses.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Fission.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?

2. What is the "good genes" theory?

3. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."

4. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.

5. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?

(see the answer key)

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