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

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

3. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) There will be no one competing.
(b) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(c) All the clones will be healthy.
(d) It is not less risky.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

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

4. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.

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

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