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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?
(a) Evolution.
(b) To be upgraded.
(c) Change.
(d) Replication.

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

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

4. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
(b) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(c) To study asexual reproduction.
(d) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.

5. What is sexual selection?
(a) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(b) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(c) Random mating between humans.
(d) Irrational mating between humans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of study does evolution become?

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

4. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

5. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?

(see the answer key)

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