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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?
(a) Only when they are genetically engineered.
(b) Yes, always.
(c) Occasionally.
(d) No, never.

2. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.
(a) More babies.
(b) Female babies.
(c) Less babies.
(d) Male babies.

3. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Why sex works the way it does.
(b) Why people enjoy sex.
(c) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(d) How sex works.

4. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?
(a) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.
(b) It was made up by someone who is not a scientist.
(c) It does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(d) It sees evolution as the goal of an organisim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?

2. Most modern societies are _________.

3. How does evolution work?

4. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.

(see the answer key)

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