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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Expensive.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Risky.
(d) Annoying.

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

3. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?
(a) It was made up by someone who is not a scientist.
(b) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.
(c) It does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(d) It sees evolution as the goal of an organisim.

4. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?
(a) The fast gazelle survives and reproduces, thus spreading its genes.
(b) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.
(c) It is able to always kill its prey.
(d) The gazelle gets caught.

5. What is the bdelloid rotifer?
(a) A type of animal that produces asexually.
(b) A microscopic animal that can live in any kind of water.
(c) An organism that lacks certain genes.
(d) A genetically engineered organism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the tangled bank theory?

2. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?

3. How does evolution work?

4. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?

5. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?

(see the answer key)

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