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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) Competition between friends.
(b) A slow process.
(c) How organisms become better over generations.
(d) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.

2. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Slow genetics of men.
(b) High pregnancy rate.
(c) Low pregnancy rate.
(d) Evolutionary arms race.

3. Who has solutions concerning genetics?
(a) Doctors and scientists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Geneticists.
(d) Molecular biologists and geneticists.

4. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will be wiped out.
(b) The clones attack one another in order to survive.
(c) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.
(d) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.

5. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?
(a) To be upgraded.
(b) Change.
(c) Replication.
(d) Evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do species outwit killer viruses?

2. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

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

4. To understand human nature, what must we understand?

5. What is sexual selection?

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