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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) No one.
(b) Everyone.
(c) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(d) Only humans, not other organisms.

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

3. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(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 produce.

4. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.
(b) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(c) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.

5. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(c) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

2. What kind of study does evolution become?

3. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

4. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?

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

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