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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) A slow process.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) Competition between friends.
(d) How organisms become better over generations.

2. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) How babies are made.
(b) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(c) Why there are men and women.
(d) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.

3. 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 provides rapid speed of evolution.
(d) Sexual reproduction should not exist.

4. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?
(a) Only when they are genetically engineered.
(b) No, never.
(c) Occasionally.
(d) Yes, always.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 2 begin?

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

3. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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