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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Genes too similar to their parents.
(b) A different bag of genes from their parents.
(c) Weak and strong genes.
(d) Weak genes.

3. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(b) Why humans are the way they are.
(c) Where humans live.
(d) How they got to be the way they are.

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 does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(d) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.

5. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.
(a) Undeniable.
(b) Strong.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.

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

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

4. What are transposons?

5. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

(see the answer key)

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