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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?
(a) Increases randomness of the genome.
(b) Makes stronger genes.
(c) Decreases randomness of the genome.
(d) Causes too much risk in the genes.

2. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Blue Book Theory.
(b) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(c) The King's Theory.
(d) The Red Queen Theory.

3. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(b) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.
(c) No one can catch up.
(d) World War II.

4. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) With diagrams.
(b) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.
(c) Information about the author.
(d) An explanation of sexual reproduction.

5. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

2. What kind of study does evolution become?

3. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

4. Who created the tangled bank theory?

5. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

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