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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?
(a) To ignore its history.
(b) To negate human nature.
(c) Study creationists theories.
(d) Study the twists and turns of the evolutionary story.

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

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

5. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Weak and strong genes.
(b) Genes too similar to their parents.
(c) A different bag of genes from their parents.
(d) Weak genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

2. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

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

4. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

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

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