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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) Random mating between humans.
(b) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(c) Irrational mating between humans.
(d) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.

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) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(c) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(d) How babies are made.

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

4. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Parasites and diseases.
(b) Killing ones own organisms.
(c) Death and destruction.
(d) Accidents.

5. What is the bdelloid rotifer?
(a) A microscopic animal that can live in any kind of water.
(b) A type of animal that produces asexually.
(c) An organism that lacks certain genes.
(d) A genetically engineered organism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do species outwit killer viruses?

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

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

4. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

5. What is the tangled bank theory?

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