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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(b) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(c) How babies are made.
(d) Why there are men and women.

2. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?
(a) Males.
(b) Males and Females.
(c) Females.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

3. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?
(a) It does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(b) It was made up by someone who is not a scientist.
(c) It sees evolution as the goal of an organisim.
(d) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.

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

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(b) Why people are attracted to one another.
(c) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(d) A new way for humans to mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

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

3. In an attempt to "outwit" these killers, organisms engage in _____________.

4. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

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

(see the answer key)

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