1. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Change.
(c) Replication.
(d) To be upgraded.

2. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(b) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(c) There will be less births overall.
(d) There will be more births overall.

3. Who has solutions concerning genetics?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Doctors and scientists.
(c) Geneticists.
(d) Molecular biologists and geneticists.

4. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Same-sex Reproduction.
(b) Sexual Reproduction.
(c) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction.

5. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?
(a) To ignore its history.
(b) Study creationists theories.
(c) Study the twists and turns of the evolutionary story.
(d) To negate human nature.

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. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

3. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

4. In Chapter 4, what story of tragedy does the author tell?

5. What are out law genes?

(see the answer key)

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