1. What is sexual selection?
(a) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(b) Random mating between humans.
(c) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(d) Irrational mating between humans.

2. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Blue Book Theory.
(b) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(c) The Red Queen Theory.
(d) The King's Theory.

3. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) A new way for humans to mate.
(b) Why people are attracted to one another.
(c) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(d) The reason for asexual reproduction.

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

5. What is the lottery theory?
(a) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.
(b) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.
(c) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(d) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

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

3. High status individuals tend to have __________.

4. In an attempt to "outwit" these killers, organisms engage in _____________.

5. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

(see the answer key)

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