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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(b) How sex works.
(c) Why people enjoy sex.
(d) Why sex works the way it does.

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

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

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

5. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.
(a) Hermaphrodite.
(b) Female.
(c) Female or male.
(d) Male.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

2. What is the solution of the individually rational genes?

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

4. What is the male to female ratio?

5. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?

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