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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) His sermons.
(b) Killing Catholics.
(c) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.
(d) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.

3. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?
(a) Survival.
(b) Killing one another.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Reproduction.

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

5. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Sexual and asexual reproduction.
(b) Fission.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Sexual Reproduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

2. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

3. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

4. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?

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

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