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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sexual selection?
(a) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(b) Random mating between humans.
(c) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(d) Irrational mating between humans.

2. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) No one.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their descendants.
(d) Their spouses.

3. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(b) Asexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(c) Sexual reproduction is easier.
(d) Asexual reproduction is easier.

4. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(b) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(c) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(d) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.

5. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a discussion of asexual organisms.
(b) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(c) With a discussion of human nature.
(d) With a story of Martians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the lottery theory?

2. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

3. What is the primary purpose of sexual reproduction that is very beneficial for all offspring?

4. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?

5. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

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