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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) How organisms become better over generations.
(c) Competition between friends.
(d) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.

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

3. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(b) Psychopathic behavior.
(c) No similarities in emotions.
(d) Similar emotions and behaviors.

4. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(b) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(c) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(d) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 2 begin?

2. How do species outwit killer viruses?

3. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

4. Who developed the Red Queen theory?

5. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

(see the answer key)

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