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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does evolution work?
(a) Very slowly, over thousands of years.
(b) Without competition between organisms.
(c) Different adaptations of an individual which give a reproductive edge.
(d) Change is continuous.

3. 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.

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Russel Wallace.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(b) The Blue Book Theory.
(c) The King's Theory.
(d) The Red Queen Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

2. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?

3. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

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

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.

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