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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) Why sex works the way it does.
(b) Why people enjoy sex.
(c) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(d) How sex works.

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

3. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(c) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(d) Sexual reproduction should not exist.

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

5. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Fission.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do organisms compete during evolution?

2. What are out law genes?

3. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?

4. What is the tangled bank theory?

5. What is the main focus of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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