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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(b) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(c) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(d) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.

2. In most species, what do many females mostly prefer in males?
(a) Money.
(b) The ability to keep her safe.
(c) A male that promises to stay around.
(d) External factors, like male attractiveness.

3. How does evolution work?
(a) Very slowly, over thousands of years.
(b) Without competition between organisms.
(c) Different adaptations of an individual which give a reproductive edge.
(d) Change is continuous.

4. What is lekking?
(a) A time of mating for birds.
(b) A courtship dance among mammals.
(c) A sexual market where male birds congregate.
(d) A way for birds to mate.

5. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who cannot compete with males?

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

4. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

5. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

(see the answer key)

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