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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(b) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.
(c) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.
(d) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.

2. What is the primary purpose of sexual reproduction that is very beneficial for all offspring?
(a) Speed of evolution.
(b) Meeting a soul mate.
(c) Making many children.
(d) Slowness of evolution.

3. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Outcrossing genes.
(b) Combining all genes.
(c) Killing genes that are not yours.
(d) Combining and outcrossing genes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

2. What is sexual selection?

3. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

4. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

5. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

(see the answer key)

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