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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.
(b) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(c) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(d) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.

2. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.
(a) The male with the nicest wing span.
(b) Based on having the most food.
(c) The prettiest beak.
(d) Based on ornamentation.

3. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To study asexual reproduction.
(b) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(c) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(d) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.

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

5. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) No one.
(b) Their descendants.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their spouses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do organisms compete during evolution?

2. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?

4. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?

5. Males are interested in increasing the _________ of sexual partners whereas women are interested in increasing the ________ of sexual partners.

(see the answer key)

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