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

2. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?
(a) Survival.
(b) Killing one another.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Evolution.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.

2. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?

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

4. How do organisms compete during evolution?

5. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.

(see the answer key)

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