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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 the lottery theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(b) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(c) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.
(d) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.

2. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.
(a) Not able.
(b) Not an easy way.
(c) An attempt.
(d) An inefficient means.

3. How does evolution work?
(a) Change is continuous.
(b) Without competition between organisms.
(c) Very slowly, over thousands of years.
(d) Different adaptations of an individual which give a reproductive edge.

4. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(b) Why humans are the way they are.
(c) Where humans live.
(d) How they got to be the way they are.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

4. How do organisms compete during evolution?

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

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