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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(b) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(c) The organism decided to self replicate.
(d) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.

2. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) No one can catch up.
(b) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(c) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.
(d) World War II.

3. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(d) Russel Wallace.

4. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(b) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.
(c) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(d) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sexual selection?

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

3. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

4. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

5. What is the lottery theory?

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